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19	 Mark A. Stoler, "George C. Marshall and the 'Europe-First' Strategy, 1939-1951: A Study
in Diplomatic as well as Military History," Journal of Military History 79 (2015): 302;
Machado, In Search of a Usable Past, 10.
20	 George C. Marshall, "Statement on Reconstruction of Germany on a Democratic Basis,"
March 14, 1947, in The Papers of George C. Marshall, ed. Larry I. Bland and Mark A. Stoler,
vol. 6, "The Whole World Hangs in the Balance," January 8, 1947-September 30, 1949, (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013), 77-78. See Debi Unger and Irwin Unger,
with Stanley Hirshson, George Marshall: A Biography (New York: Harper, 2014), 395.
21	Machado, In Search of a Usable Past, 50-55, 125, 126.
22	 Marshall, "Memorandum of Conversation with Generalissimo Stalin," April 15, 1947, The
Papers of George C. Marshall, 97.
23	 Ibid., 103.
24	 Marshall, "Radio Address," April 28, 1947, The Papers of George C. Marshall, 113, 115, 120,
121.
25	 Robert Murphy, Diplomat among Warriors: The Unique World of a Foreign Service Expert
(Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1964), 307.
26	 Quoted in George C. Marshall: Interviews and Reminiscences for Forrest C. Pogue, rev. ed.,
ed. Larry I. Bland (Lexington, VA: George C. Marshall Research Foundation, 1991), 561.
See Daniel Yergin, Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War (1977; New York: Penguin,
1990), 299-301; Unger and Unger, George Marshall, 397-402; Robert Gellately, Stalin's
Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War (New York: Knopf, 2013), 301.
27	 Stephen Sestanovich, Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama (New
York: Knopf, 2014), 19.
28	Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 29; Stoler, "George C. Marshall," 303.
29	Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, chaps. 2-3.
30	 Melvyn P. Leffler, "The United States and the Strategic Dimensions of the Marshall
Plan," Diplomatic History 12 (1988): 282.
31	 Foreign Relations of the United States, 1948, vol. 2, Germany and Austria (Washington, DC:
Government Printing Office, 1973), 71.
32	 Stoler, "George C. Marshall," 304.
33	Gaddis, George F. Kennan, 283.
34	Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy?, 27.
35	 CIA report, September 26, 1947, quoted in ibid., 28.
36	Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 34, 36, 39, 43, 55, 57, 60 (quotation), 61-66.
37	 Stoler, "George C. Marshall," 304.
38	Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure, 174.
39	Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy?, 31; Ferguson, "Dollar Diplomacy," 83.
40	Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy?, 34.
41	Brands, What Good Is Grand Strategy?, 34-35; Gaddis, Strategies of Containment, 70.
42	Gellately, Stalin's Curse, 306, 307-8. See Isaacson and Thomas, The Wise Men, 415.
43	Behrman, The Most Noble Adventure, 339; Ferguson, "Dollar Diplomacy," 84 (quotation).
44	 Quoted in Machado, In Search of a Usable Past, 32.
45	 Michael Oakeshott, "Rationalism in Politics" (1947), in Rationalism in Politics and Other
Essays, rev. ed. (Indianapolis, IN: Liberty Fund, 1991), 26.
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