ABSTRACT
Everyone, it turned out, had a plan. The Twentieth Century Fund had a plan, Republican Presidential aspirant Harold Stassen had a plan, former President Hoover had one, as did the leading Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg, and a prominent Democrat, Senator Pepper. In April and May Walter Lippman in the Washington Post demanded abandonment of the piecemeal aid policies of the past in favour of ‘a comprehensive recovery plan agreed to by the Europeans themselves and used to support the “unification of Europe”.’ 1
