The eyes have it…
Readers will likely see Albert Einstein in photo below. But if one rises from one’s desk chair, takes a few steps back (3-5 meters), and looks again… a much more glamorous depiction.
As we question the testimony of our own eyes, we might recall that it was on this date in 1947, in a speech at Harvard, that Secretary of State (General) George Marshall called for an economic recovery plan for Europe– and The Marshall Plan was born. (It was launched after a summit with European Leaders the following July.) That the “European Recovery Program,” as it was officially called, was instrumental in the turn-around of the war-ravaged West of the continent is well known; perhaps less well-known is that The Marshall Plan offered the same aid to the USSR and its allies. They demurred, fearing that they’d be “asked” to adopt capitalist practice.