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СРУВБЕРТИКА
GEORGE MARSHALL
A MAN WITH
A PLAN
„The only way human beings can win a war
is to prevent it.“
George Marshall
DOSSIER If the relevant indices of success of photo: (http://explorepahistory.com/)
the states are compared, the Euro-
pean continent practically domi- “Good countries” for example, New Zea-
nates in all lists. According to the land is on the third place, and all others
data about the economies in the con- in the list are countries from Europe,
tinents, the European Continent with led by Ireland. Actually, the European
GDP of approximately 25 thousand bil- Continent, or most of it, is the best and
lion dollars dominates with its size prior the most civilized place to live in the
to North America with approximately 20 world. It is interesting that everything
thousand and Asia with approximately above refers to the continent where two
18 thousand billion dollars. The four world wars took place in the past centu-
European countries, Germany, France, ry, which according to the devastating
United Kingdom and Italy, are located in power cannot be compared to anything
the list of the ten largest economies in from the past history and which prac-
the world. If one analyses the economy tically demolished the continent to the
of the European Union as it was a single ground. After the termination of World
common state, without including the War II, apart from England which more
other European countries that are not or less preserved (and developed) its in-
members of the Union, and according dustry, continental Europe practically
to its size, it would exceed the US and did not have an industry. Paradoxically,
the Chinese economies which currently the only country on the territory of Eu-
lead the list only because the European rope that disposes of important indus-
Union is not treated as a single country. trial capacities was Germany which has
If we compare the productivity per cap- a strongly developed industrial sector
ita, the European countries dominate under the sway of the military needs of
here more. In addition to the standards the world war.
such as GDP, life standard, rights and
liberties etc., the European continent MORGENTHAU’S PLAN
also dominates in the lists which assess Henry Morgenthau, a Minister of Fi-
the countries from a more extensive as-
pect. From the first ten, in the index of nance of USA in the administration of
Franklin Roosevelt in World War II,
prepared a draft plan for political and
economic articulation of Germany af-
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