As Secretary of State (1947-1949), he devised the Marshall Plan for Europe's post-war reconstruction.
Most Mittelstand companies sprang up in the absence of competition with capital provided by the Marshall Plan.
It originated in 1948 when the European countries banded together to administer the Marshall Plan after World War II.
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The Marshall plan was deployed to rebuild Europe after the devastation of war.
Greg Behrman's book is the first comprehensive history of the Marshall Plan since the end of the cold war.
Nuremberg may not have achieved much in the absence of the Marshall Plan.
Mr Behrman agrees that the Marshall Plan was certainly in America's strategic interest.
Supported by the Marshall Plan, the new Deutschmark superseded dubious old paintings, and even American cigarettes, as the medium of exchange.
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He cites the Marshall Plan as an example of liberal nation-building that worked, and suggests trying something similar in the Middle East.
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They launched the Marshall Plan to rebuild a Europe ravaged by war.
After the war he spent some time in government advising on Germany and working on the Marshall plan, America's aid programme for Europe.
The act and its changes, along with the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, were major components of the Truman administration's Cold War strategy.
The greatest of his contributions was to the Marshall Plan for rebuilding Western Europe, a program that echoed policy recommendations made in the Long Telegram.
It's the largest increase in development assistance since the Marshall Plan.
" Justice Kennedy, the court's great middle man, puckishly noted: "The Marshall Plan was very good, too, the Morrill Act, the Northwest Ordinance, but times change.
He helped to start the Marshall Plan that got Europe back on its feet, and he was an early advocate of favoured treatment for Japan's exports.
She has never forgotten how the people of her native Czechoslovakia, blocked by Stalin from joining the Marshall Plan, quietly absorbed American ideas even across a sealed border.
This new deal, Mr Brown said, would be an equivalent of the Marshall Plan, under which the United States helped revive the European economy after World War II.
In the spirit of the Marshall Plan, Unconventional Logic is providing Dr. Papademos with a draft of the speech that he should give to the Greek people next week.
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Just before the 50th anniversary of the Marshall Plan, I will hold a summit with the European Union to affirm our transatlantic ties, even as we expand our global partnership.
It is a key element of his proposals for a modern version of the Marshall Plan, which brought US aid to rebuild Europe after World War II, for the developing world.
Top Democrats praise the success of George Bush's Millennium Challenge Corporation while quietly allowing congress to gut the funding of the United States most successful aid program since the Marshall Plan.
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But if I remember -- let me take you back perhaps to the period after the Second World War when, through the Marshall Plan, Germany was able to get back on its feet again.
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He stopped the spread of communism through the Marshall Plan, coming to the aid of Greece, protecting our position in Berlin with the airlift and coming to the aid of South Korea when the North invaded.
His written legacy includes innumerable articles and seven important books including: Spain: The Struggle for Democracy (1979), The Future of Germany and the Atlantic Alliance (1991), Transitions from Communism in Russia and Eastern Europe (1994), Partnerships for Peace, Democracy and Prosperity (1997), The Marshall Plan From Those Who Made It Succeed (1999).
And afterward, to avoid future Bosnias and future Kosovos, we will learn the lesson of the Marshall Plan and what we did for eastern Europe after the Berlin Wall fell, by working with our European allies to build prosperity and cooperation in southeastern Europe so that there will be stronger forces pulling people together than those that are driving them apart.
The new Marshall Plan should give urgent priority to beginning the deployment of a global missile defense, starting with the approach that promises to be the fastest, most flexible and least expensive: adaptation of the Navy's Aegis fleet air defense ships.
He wants the administration to develop a Marshall Plan focusing on the poorest of the poor in the Gulf Coast.
To avoid it just being a sticking plaster it would have to come with large amounts of fiscal transfer, as suggested on 21 July, in the form a quasi-Marshall Plan (since eurobonds are off the agenda due to the German court ruling).
Internationally, the report calls for what Mr Jolly describes as a Marshall Plan for the very poor, spread over 20 years.
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