For European Recovery:
The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan

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Dutch View of the Marshall Plan

Many European governments produced materials to explain the Marshall Plan to their citizens, such as this booklet printed by the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the Netherlands. The text and artwork are by Jo Spier (1900-1978), a Dutch, Jewish artist and writer who had been imprisoned in a German concentration camp during World War II and who emigrated to the U.S. in 1951.

A note in this English edition states that the original Dutch version, published in November 1949, was distributed to employers and employees, professional groups, teachers, students, and other groups in the Netherlands. It reached 2.5 million readers out of a total population of 10 million, a quarter of the nation.

Jo Spier. "The Marshall Plan and You."
The Hague, the Netherlands: Ministry of Economic Affairs, 1949, p.5.
Averell Harriman Papers, Manuscript Division.
Used by permission of the government of the Netherlands.
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Stuttgart--Before & After - Establishment of Fund - Danish Celebration

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