Description: Preface 1. The Issue and the Decision 2. The Setting: 1946, a "Disastrous Year" 3. The Foreign Service Outlook on the Prospects for Europe 4. How the Acheson-Clayton Plan Came to Be Formulated 5. The ECE, the Crisis of 1947, and the Marshall Plan 6. A Few Reflections Appendixes A. Three Versions of the Proposal for an All-European Settlement B. Three Press Reports on the Proposal, April 24-25, 1946 C. Telegrams of May 9, 1946, from Acheson and Hilldring to Byrnes in Paris, Referring to the Plan D. George Kennan's "Practical Deductions" from the Analysis in His "Long Cable" of February 1946 E. Rostow to Kindleberger Memorandum of June 10, 1946, Reporting on His Trip to Berlin and Paris E Churchill's Zurich Speech of September 19, 1946, in Support of European Unity G. John Foster Dulles' Speech ofJanuary 17, 1947, in Support of European Unity H. Memorandum of March 26, 1946, by a Member of EUR, David Harris, Arguing for U.S. Support for German Unity Notes Index

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