Fifteen Weeks

Name: Fifteen Weeks
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ISBN: 9780156306997

ISBN-10: 0156306999

ISBN-13: 9780156306997

Edition: 1965

Authors: Joseph Marion Jones, Joseph Marion Jones

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List price: $24.99
Copyright year: 1965
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/12/1965
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English

Joseph Marion Jones (October 29, 1908 - August 9, 1990)[1] served in the United States Department of State in the late 1940s.As Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs he was responsible for drafting Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson's speech before the Delta Council on May 8, 1947.Jones published his memoirs in 1955, entitling them "The Fifteen Weeks: February 21 - June 5 1947". These chronicled his part in the development of the Marshall Plan.



Foreword


Prologue: in Washington



Three Occasions And Three Speeches



The Capitol, Washington, D.C., March 12, 1947.



The Delta Council, Cleveland, Mississippi, May 8, 1947



Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 5, 1947



"A Much Wider Situation"



Balance of Power and Imperial System



Near Breakthrough in Iran



Soviet Pressures on Turkey



The Winning Hand--Greece



Western Europe on the Brink



The Immediate Setting



The Political Scene in Washington



The Chief Actors



The Fifteen Weeks



A Week of Decision



Drafting the Truman Doctrine



The Public Debate



The Acheson Initiative



Lessons of Moscow



Public Pressures



The Marshall Plan


Epilogue: Foreign Policy Unchained


Appendix


President Harry S. Truman's Address before a Joint Session of Congress, March 12, 1947


Undersecretary of State Dean G. Acheson's Address before the Delta Council, Cleveland, Mississippi, May 8, 1947


Secretary of State George C. Marshall's Address at the Commencement Exercises of Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 5, 1947


Excerpts from President Harry S. Truman's Address at a Jefferson Day Dinner in Washington, D.C., April 5, 1947


Excerpts from Undersecretary of State Dean G. Acheson's Address at the Commencement Exercises of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, June 15, 1947


Index