Marshall Aid - sugar shipment, 1949
1949 1945-1960 "Marshall Aid - sugar shipment, 1949" [HFR0107], 1949 In 1947, the American Secretary of State, George Marshall, proposed his European Recovery Programme, later known as the Marshall Plan, to rebuild a war-shattered Europe. Marshall offered financial aid from the USA for a p...
| Institution: | TUC - Trade Union Congress Library |
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| Language: | English |
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1949
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/BC046682-C1CB-4FED-8F5F-2D1A0A63AD46 http://hdl.handle.net/10796/215CB4ED-D075-4A76-A368-65F7B6DFE820 |
| Summary: | 1949
1945-1960
"Marshall Aid - sugar shipment, 1949" [HFR0107], 1949
In 1947, the American Secretary of State, George Marshall, proposed his European Recovery Programme, later known as the Marshall Plan, to rebuild a war-shattered Europe. Marshall offered financial aid from the USA for a programme of European economic recovery. In April 1948, President Harry S. Truman signed the first appropriation bill authorizing $5,300,000,000 for the first year. The European Recovery Program came to an end on 31 December, 1951. In its three year existence, the ERP spent almost $12,500,000,000, with Britain receiving the largest share of any European nation.
This photograph shows dockers unloading the first cargo of Marshall Aid funded Caribbean sugar. |
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