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Risking All to Save a Continent
By Richard Levick
June 21, 2010
History lesson: At a time when George C. Marshall’s reputation as a soldier and statesman was already secure, he willingly put everything on the line to help ensure passage of the plan in Congress that bears his name and to oversee its implementation.
On June 5, 1947, students, families and assorted dignitaries gathered outside Harvard’s Memorial Church to hear Secretary of State George C. Marshall deliver what both the university and the State Department had billed in advance as a routine commencement speech.
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