Word: programing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meeting favored generally the use of United Nations facilities when possible, the avoidance of "internal meddling" in economies and politics abroad, in addition to the concept of a positive reconstruction program...
...unanimous vote carried uncommon significance. The meeting, which created the Harvard-Radcliffe Committee to Save the Marshall Plan, had been dealing with the various aspects of the Marshall Plan that it felt ought to be "saved." The vote was in favor of accepting a broadly outlined four-point program, and its unanimity was significant in that it included the assent of leaders from such widely divergent groups as the Students for Democratic Action, the Harvard Young Republican Club, the Catholic Club, the United Nations Council, and the Radcliffe League for Democracy. The vote indicates a solidly realistic attitude toward...
...Committee's ideas concerning the general line the influence should take is equally clear cut. The legislation, it feels, must provide for enough money to make the program one of recovery rather than one of relief. The legislation must provide a positive program for European aid, not a negative anti-Russian economic weapon. It must not be used as a lever to influence the internal politics of the European nations involved. Finally, it must be implemented as much as possible through the United Nations. This program has deliberately been exempted from rigorous technicalities. The Committee, again displaying sanity...
...with sufficient vehemence and cogency, and to create enough popular support for them to influence Congress in this year of our election, 1948 A.D. The Republicans have been placed in a difficult position by the Marshall Plan. They have been forced to acknowledge the necessity of a European Recovery Program, but they have been prone to tinker with the Administration's proposals. It would be nicer for their political future, they feel, if they could take credit for the program themselves. This is but one example of the sort of political maneuvering which, together with the very real and complicated...
...Willard Sperry, Dean of the Divinity School, and Edward S. Mason, Dean of the School of Public Administration, are among the signers of the letter. Student sponsors said last night that they hoped the meeting would see the birth of "an all-Harvard committee to save the European Recovery Program...