SUCCESS IMPERATIVE
EUROPEAN RECOVERY PROGRAMME
GRIM ALTERNATIVES SEEN Rec. 11 p.m. NEW YORK, May 20. Mr Paul Hoffman, the European aid administrator, said to-night that the European recovery programme must succeed, because failure might well mean a third world war. He believed the programme would succeed, although the task would cost the United States billions of dollars and might change its economic and business structure.
“The alternatives to success are altogether too grim to face. If totalitarian rule should be imposed upon the people of Western Europe, the United States would of necessity have to become a garrison State. The other alternative to success is a third world war. That alternative I refuse to consider. Even if we won we should face utter disaster.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 26778, 22 May 1948, Page 7
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