UN General Assembly
1948

A similar situation existed in all other European countries which had not accepted the Marshall Plan. He thought that that view would be shared by the representatives of the majority of the countries represented at the Assembly. The first direct consequences of that plan were now clear. It had divided Europe and was trying to divide the whole world into countries of different categories. For political reasons, the plan tried to regulate and control the exchange of goods between the United States and countries included in the plan, as well as other countries. It also tried to control trade between the « Marshall Plan countries» and others. It was thus introducing everywhere a system of privileged and under-privileged countries, a system of control over free goods and prohibited goods. Such a system, discriminating as it did against one group of nations in favour of another, had nothing in common with the true economic purposes of the United Nations and of its organs.