BoomerZoo Almanac for June 3-9 2007: Marshalling some good vibes
One of the most generous, thoughtful and noble ventures in recent memory was inaugurated at the outset of the Boomer era. This would be George C. Marshall’s plan to get Europe back on its feet after World War II, which he outlined on June 5, 1947 in a talk he gave at Harvard University. It was such a great idea that he won the 1953 Nobel Peace Prize for it. The Marshall Plan, as it came to be known, may well be the reason so many of us Americans think of ourselves as the good guys. OK, we think of ourselves as the good guys because of that cognitive dissonance thing, but we WERE noble and wonderful when we agreed to carry out the Marshall Plan. For this 60th anniversary year of the Marshall Plan, Greg Behrman wrote a book titled The Most Noble Adventure: The Marshall Plan and the Time When America Helped Save Europe. Let’s hope those Europeans remember that noble adventure should WE need to be saved.
