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Herter Committee

The House Select Committee on Foreign Aid, or Herter Committee, was established to study the proposal that had been launched by General George Marshall in his speech at Harvard on June 5, 1947, for a Marshall Plan, in part as Cold War anticommunism, which led future US President Richard Nixon to focus on foreign policy throughout his public career. In 1947, it identified a "prevailing theme throughout–that democratic leadership was close to non-existent and Communist leadership at the forefront of political shaping."[1][2][3][4]

History

1947

1948

Charles A. Eaton

Christian A. Herter

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Investigate Marshall Plan

United States foreign policy in Europe

1947.11.04: "Preliminary Report of the House Select Committee on Foreign Aid," resolution

1948.02.06: "Memorandum for Congressman Herter," suggestions about labor leaders in ERP and resumes

1948.03.04: "Country Section of Final Report," by Lindsay, Herter Committee report

1948.04.10: "The Place of the United States in European Industrial Development," by Lindsay, memorandum for Herter Committee

Undated: "Draft of Thoughts on the Major Problems of the Marshall Proposals," memoranda for the staff of the Herter Committee

Undated: "The European Recovery Program: Dollar Needs and Dollar Resources," memorandum on Herter Committee stationary

The committee's final, 889-page report included six (6) main points:


The Franklin Lindsay papers[9] at the Hoover Institution Archives include the following papers from the Herter Committee:

Christian Herter

Richard Nixon

Marshall Plan

Register of the Franklin Lindsay papers - Box 9 - House Select Committee on Foreign Aid (Herter Committee)

Nixon Library - Herter Committee Trip

USDOS SUMMARY REPORT OF ACTION TAKEN ON HERTER COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATIONS