AN IRON CURTAIN
May 12, 2022
3 minutes
rom 1945 onward the challenge of rebuilding a devastated Europe was so vast that US President Harry Truman’s administration struggled to devise a strategy for the continent, which by 1946 had 60 million refugees, with 14 million displaced in Germany alone. But there remained critical voices from within and without Washington DC, such as the former isolationist and Republican Senator Arthur Vandenberg, who urged a firm American commitment – a commitment that required the huge costs to be shared by
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