ABSTRACT
From 1953 to 1977 I had a long gap in writing or thinking about the Marshall Plan, interrupted only by a request from a Canadian journal on international relations (Kindleberger, 1968) to hold forth on the cold war aspects of the Marshall Plan’s origins. Like the political aspects of the German Occupation this presumably lay outside my competence, but that seems not to have been inhibiting. While I was in no position to pronounce on the subject ex cathedra, there might be some merit in expressing a judgement on how it had looked to me.
