UN General Assembly
1947

The Congress of the United States, the American people, will most probably hesitate to grant the necessary authority for the implementation of the Marshall Plan, enlarged as we have made free to express. Collaboration in normal times moves more slowly than when the guns are roaring, and it is usually more restricted. It is easier to lend-lease ships, tanks and ammunition than foodstuffs, clothes or industrial and agricultural machinery. But it can be seen that a peace-time lend-lease can be put into effect at considerably less cost than the original lend-lease system for war purposes, not to mention that the results would be more revolutionary and far-reaching.