3 Without any help from anyone,
4 And gave it to the president,
5 Who must have been Truman,
6 aSince Roosevelt was still dead.
7 George's brilliantly original idea was to create a new kind of peace in western Europe,
8 bA kind of peace that would bury the hatchet forever,
9 cAnd make it easier for the Europeans to get along with each other in the future,
10 dBecause they couldn't keep going out and killing twenty or thirty million of each other's troops every twenty years or so,
11 eEvery time some lunatic in a comic-opera uniform decided that some country had always really belonged to some other country.
12 fAnd so George thought up the idea of making generous peace terms,
13 gThat wouldn't make anyone bitter,
14 hNot even Germany or Japan,
15 Because it would be better for everybody if they rebuilt their bombed-out factories,
16 And went back to work on the important things,
17 iLike making money.
18 And if they had a problem,
19 jThey could go resolve it peaceably in something like a League of Nations,
20 Only better,
21 kLike maybe the United Nations,
22 Which should be in some nice, safe central location that all the Europeans could get to easily,
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23 lLike New York.
CHAPTER 1241 The Marshall Plan turned out to be even more successful than it was original,
2 Thanks to mGeorge, of course,
3 Not to mention nPresident Truman,
4 oWho was honest and great,
5 Because Roosevelt had thought enough of him to make him vice president,
6 pWhich was good enough for the Yanks,
7 And besides, where could you find a president who would be better at showing the whole world how serious the Yanks were about qequality,
8 rAnd how nobody was really any better than anyone else,
9 Because President Truman was obviously no better than anybody,
10 Being completely average in every respect,
11 Except much more decisive, of course,
12 And honest,
13 And great,
14 Because Roosevelt wouldn't have picked him otherwise,
15 sWould he?
16 Anyway,
17 tIt was Truman who was president when the Yanks gave all that money to the Europeans to rebuild their cities and factories and everything,
18 uAnd except for the Russkies,
19 Everything started to get better in Europe,
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