【正文】 s using them for feeds more grain to stock and finds for himself and his family an ample supply of food, however short he may be on clothing and the other ordinary gadgets of , people in the cities are short of food and fuel, and in some places approaching the starvation , thegovernments are forced to use their foreign money and credits to procure these necessities process exhausts funds which are urgently needed for , a very serious situation is rapidly developing which bodes no goodfor the modern system of the division of labor upon which the exchange of products is based is in danger of breaking truth of the matter is that Europe39。My fellow Americans, a tree takes a long time to grow, and wounds take a long time to we must who are lost now belong to day we will be with until that happens, their legacy must be our you all, and God bless you.第四篇：美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講100篇The_Marshall_Plan美國(guó)經(jīng)典英文演講100篇:“The Marshall Plan”George The Marshall Plan[AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.], , members of the Board of Overseers, Ladies and Gentlemen:I am profoundly grateful, touched by the great distinction and honor and great pliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this am overwhelmed, as a matter of fact, and I am rather fearful of my inability to maintain such a high rating as you39。 Justice will us let our own children know that we will stand against the forces of there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against the face of death, let us honor admonished us, Let us “not be overe by evil, but overe evil with good.”178。s words seem small beside the loss you have I found a few I wanted to share 39。citizens in the building going about their daily business。ve been here about certain demonstrations against my I would like to say just one thing, and to those who demonstrate wonder if they have ever asked themselves that if they should have the kind of government they apparently seek, no one would ever be able to do what they39。s one major flaw: treating the glass sphere at the top with paints and chemicals of every even today when the sun strikes that sphere, that sphere that towers over all Berlin, the light makes the sign of the in Berlin, like the city itself, symbols of love, symbols of worship, cannot be I looked out a moment ago from the Reichstag, that embodiment of German unity, I noticed words crudely spraypainted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner(quote):“This wall will bee reality.”Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall, for it cannot withstand faith。s something deeper, something that involves Berlin39。ve done so in spite of threatsthe Soviet attempts to impose the Eastmark, the the city thrives in spite of the challenges implicit in the very presence of this keeps you here? Certainly there39。m certain, will do the it39。we are armed because we mistrust each our differences are not about weapons but about President Kennedy spoke at the City Hall those 24 years ago, freedom was encircled。and the Soviets later walked away from the through it all, the alliance held I invite those who protested thenI invite those who protest todayto mark this fact: Because we remained strong, the Soviets came back to the we remained strong, today we have within reach the possibility, not merely of limiting the growth of arms, but of eliminating, for the first time, an entire class of nuclear weapons from the face of the I speak, NATO ministers are meeting in Iceland to review the progress of our proposals for eliminating these the talks in Geneva, we have also proposed deep cuts in strategic offensive the Western allies have likewise made farreaching proposals to reduce the danger of conventional war and to place a total ban on chemical we pursue these arms reductions, I pledge to you that we will maintain the capacity to deter Soviet aggression at any level at which it might in cooperation with many of our allies, the United States is pursuing the Strategic Defense Initiativeresearch to base deterrence not on the threat of offensive retaliation, but on defenses that truly defend。s efforts to help overe these be sure, we in the West must resist Soviet , we must maintain defenses of unassailable we seek peace。]In the 1950sIn the 1950s Khrushchev predicted: “We will bury you.”But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and wellbeing unprecedented in all human the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kindtoo little today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with ity and is the nownow the Soviets themselves may, in a limited way, be ing to understand the importance of hear much from Moscow about a new policy of reform and political prisoners have been foreign news broadcasts are no longer being economic enterprises have been permitted to operate with greater freedom from state these the beginnings of profound changes in the Soviet state? Or are they token gestures intended to raise false hopes in the West, or to strengthen the Soviet system without changing it? We wele change and openness。 From devastation, from utter ruin, you Berliners have, in freedom, rebuilt a city that once again ranks as one of the greatest on the Soviets may have had other my friends, there were a few things the Soviets didn39。s culture seemed to have been destroyed, today there are two great universities, orchestras and an opera, countless theaters, and there was want, today there39。ve been toldGeorge Marshall announced the creation of what would bee known as the Marshall precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: “Our policy is directed