The Division of Europe After World War II: 1946

Contents
1. The Issue and the Decision
2. The Setting: 1946, a “Disastrous Year”
3. The Foreign Service Outlook on the Prospects for Europe
4. How the Acheson-Clayton Plan Came to Be Formulated
5. The ECE, the Crisis of 1947, and the Marshall Plan
6. A Few Reflections
Appendix A. Three Versions of the Proposal for an All-European Settlement
Appendix B. Three Press Reports on the Proposal, April 24-25, 1946
Appendix C. Telegrams of May 9, 1946, from Acheson and Hilldring to Byrnes in PAris, Referring to the Plan
Appendix D. George Kennan’s Practical Deductions” from the Analysis in His “Long Cable” of February 1946
Appendix E. Rostow to Kindleberger Memorandum of June 10, 1946, Reporting on His Trip to Berlin and Paris
Appendix F. Churchill’s Zurich Speech of September 19, 1946, in Support of European Unity
	BLESSED ACT OF OBLIVION
	DANGERS HAVE NOT STOPPED
Appendix G. John Foster Dulles’ Speech of January 17, 1947, in Support of European Unity
Appendix H. Memorandum of March 26, 1946, by a Member of EUR, David Harris, Arguing for US. Support for German Unity
Notes
Index