“He shuns all avoidable publicity, he is a man of great personal reserve, but the U.S. people have learned why they trust General Marshall more than they have trusted any military man since George Washington: he is a civis Americanus.”
—From the January 3, 1944 issue of TIME magazine
“On June 5, standing under the elms in the Harvard Yard, George Marshall, in almost casual terms, announced the beginning of the program that was to become the Marshall Plan. Then & there the U.S. at last set out to seize the initiative from Russia in the cold war.”
—From the January 5, 1948 issue of TIME magazine