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Events on Thursday 5 June 1947 1
1947Marshall Plan proposedGeorge Marshall outlines American aid for European recoveryOn 5 June 1947, US Secretary of State George C. Marshall called for a programme of American economic assistance to rebuild Europe in a speech at Harvard University. The European Recovery Program that followed channelled over 13 billion dollars into Western Europe. The Soviet Union and its satellites refused to take part.