Title: George Marshall
Content: Department that Chiang's success was vital to American interests, insisting that U.S. troops not become involved. After Marshall's return to the U.S. in early 1947, Truman appointed Marshall Secretary of State. He became the spokesman for the State Department's ambitious plans to rebuild Europe. On June 5, 1947 in a speech at Harvard University, he outlined the American proposal. The European Recovery Program, as it was formally known, became known as the Marshall Plan. Clark Clifford had suggested to Truman that the plan be called the Truman Plan, but Truman immediately dismissed that idea and insisted that it be called

Title: James F. Byrnes
Content: him for support. Truman appointed Byrnes as Secretary of State on July 3, 1945. As Secretary of State, he was first in line to the Presidency as there was no Vice-President during Truman's first term. He played a major role at the Potsdam Conference, the Paris Peace Conference, and other major postwar conferences. According to historian Robert H. Ferrell, Byrnes knew little more about foreign relations than Truman. He made decisions after consulting a few advisors, such as Donald S. Russell and Benjamin V. Cohen. Byrnes and his small group paid little attention to the State Department and similarly ignored

Title: Marshall Plan
Content: the Eastern Bloc nations would join the plan, and thus be pulled out of the emerging Soviet bloc, but that did not happen. In January 1947, Truman appointed retired General George Marshall as Secretary of State. In July 1947 Marshall scrapped Joint Chiefs of Staff Directive 1067 implemented as part of the Morgenthau Plan under the personal supervision of Roosevelt's treasury secretary Henry Morgenthau, Jr., which had decreed "take no steps looking toward the economic rehabilitation of Germany [or] designed to maintain or strengthen the German economy." Thereafter, JCS 1067 was supplanted by JCS 1779, stating that "an orderly and

Title: Dean Acheson
Content: in American foreign policy that became known as the Truman Doctrine. Acheson designed the economic aid program to Europe that became known as the Marshall Plan. Acheson believed the best way to contain Stalin's Communism and prevent future European conflict was to restore economic prosperity to Western Europe, to encourage interstate cooperation there, and to help the U.S. economy by making its trading partners richer. On June 30, 1947 Acheson received the Medal for Merit from President Truman. In 1949, Acheson was appointed Secretary of State. In this position he built a working framework for containment, first formulated by George

Title: W. John Kenney
Content: Truman then promoted Kenney to Under Secretary of the Navy and he served in that office from September 19, 1947 to September 24, 1949. Under the Marshall Plan, President Truman named Kenney director of the Economic Cooperation Mission to Britain, and then, in 1950, he became the operating chief of the entire Marshall Plan under its director, W. Averell Harriman. Kenney would later support Harriman during Harriman's 1952 and 1956 attempts to become President of the United States. With the ending of the Marshall Plan in 1952, Kenney returned to the private practice of corporate law as a partner at

Question: Which Secretary of State under Truman helped formulate the Marshall Plan?
Answer: Dean Acheson