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Not all of the New Dealers, it must be said, bought into the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan. For instance, Henry Wallace, the former vice president and secretary of agriculture, who was fired by Truman for disagreeing with the Cold War’s imperatives, referred to the Marshall Plan as the ‘Martial Plan’. He warned against creating a rift with America’s wartime ally, the Soviet Union, and remarked that the conditions attached to the Soviet Union’s invitation to be part of the Marshall Plan w
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― The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
― The Global Minotaur: America, the True Origins of the Financial Crisis and the Future of the World Economy
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The serious Sylvia was agonizing over the execution of the Rosenbergs and McCarthyism; others were delighting to dream over trousseau lingerie at Vanity Fair's showroom.
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― Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
― Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
