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Paul Hoffman

"If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor."

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Donna Grant

"In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland."

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Donna Grant

"Compared to industry in Europe or Japan, where industry was based on a craft tradition, we are sadly behind."

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Donna Grant

"Historians don't really like to carry on speculative debates, but you could certainly argue that the likelihood of a Soviet invasion of Western Europe was extremely, extremely low."

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Donna Grant

"I might have played a little bit more in Europe than I have in Japan."

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Donna Grant

"I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff."

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Donna Grant

"Europe cannot confine itself to the cultivation of its own garden."

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Donna Grant

"I am touring in Europe. I am putting together a trio and a quartet. I am playing solo concerts with my symphonic sounds. I am very much engaged back to playing and recording and everything."

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Donna Grant

"It is chiefly in New York that I feel induced to urge this, because New York is, by innumerable ties, connected with Europe - more connected than several parts of Europe itself."

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Donna Grant

"All Europe, including Erasmus, has followed Luther."

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Donna Grant

"Who knows but that England may revive in New South Wales when it has sunk in Europe."

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Paul Hoffman
"We should wage war not to win war, but to win peace."

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Paul Hoffman
"The Europeans had made two promises to the United States if Marshall Plan help was forthcoming. The first promise was maximum self-help on the part of every country; and second, maximum mutual aid."

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Paul Hoffman
"The magic was in the Marshall Plan itself. It provided an opportunity for appealing and constructive work. In a sense, the mission chiefs were given the opportunity to help act as architects for the new Europe that was envisioned."

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Paul Hoffman
"I would like to say that no man ever was given finer cooperation than that given me by President Truman."

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Paul Hoffman
"Yes, Jean Monnet was the father of the concept of a United States of Europe and his efforts more than those of any other single man helped change the thinking of European leaders."

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Paul Hoffman
"In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars."

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Paul Hoffman
"If there was to be a new Europe, there not only had to be a common market, but also great mobility in labor."

Europe

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Paul Hoffman
"As far as we were concerned, we were operators, we were administrators. I don't ever recall going to Dean Acheson and asking for any counsel or advice on administration, but I had the greatest respect for him, as I have today."

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Paul Hoffman
"However, from the very beginning of the program, we made it perfectly clear that we would be out of Europe in four years; that whatever was to be accomplished had to be accomplished in that period of time."

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Paul Hoffman
"At the time it seriously troubled me, but in drafting me as Marshall Plan Administrator, President Truman did as great a favor for me as one man can do for another. It opened my eyes to many things of which I was totally unaware and it was the beginning of my real education."

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