Question of Justice

What is this question of feeding Europe and Asia? Is it one of charity? It is not. For what we possess beyond our actual needs belongs of right and in justice to those who do not have it. They owe us nothing in return—certainly nothing of political or economic allegiance which the Marshall Plan (in reality, not on paper) and the Truman Doctrine (even on paper) forces on them. We must protest this identification of the Marshall Plan with feeding Europe or with any resemblance to Christian charity—it is but another plank in American "self-interest." as Senator Vanderburg approvingly points out. It is the same type of "self interest" which has closed the doors of the country to the dispossessed, which has stood callously by and watched the miseries of the Jews and other homeless peoples and has lifted no finger to aid—unless it be to aid the Greek Government murder Communists.