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Present At The Creation: The Fortieth Anniversary Of The Marshall Plan

Edited by Armand Clesse and Archie C. Epps
Reviewed by William Diebold, Jr.
Summer 1990
Present At The Creation: The Fortieth Anniversary Of The Marshall Plan
Edited by Armand Clesse and Archie C. Epps
Harper & Row
1990
188 pp.
$29.95
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The chief attractions of this volume are the reflections on the Marshall Plan by some of the ablest of its veterans: Willard Thorp, Miriam Camps, Robert Bowie, Van Cleveland, Thomas Schelling and Herman Abs. Other papers of varying degrees of originality deal with a range of related subjects, including NATO.

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