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The Marshall Plan rested squarely on an American belief that European economic recovery was essential to the long term interests of the United States.
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The Marshall Plan rested squarely on an American belief that European economic recovery was essential to the long term interests of the United States. These interests were interdependent and symbiotic in their benefits of which included economic interests. American leaders envisioned an open international economy founded on the principles of liberal capitalism, such as free trade and equal opportunity. But they also linked these principles with democratic forms of government, associated autarkic economic policies with totalitarian political regimes, and assumed that 'enemies in the market place' could not be 'friends at the council table.' 'The political line up followed the economic line up,' as Cordell Hull once put it. 1 American interests dictated an active role in rebuilding Europe, but listing these interests explains neither the full range of American goals or how American policy makers hoped to achieve them. American ambition included economic, political, and strategic interests. The Marshall Planners...
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