In his plan for European postwar recovery from 1947 [Document 24.2], Secretary of State George C. Marshall wrote: "Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine but against hunger, poverty, desperation and chaos. Its purpose should be the revival of a working economy in the world so as to permit the emergence of political and social conditions in which free institutions can exist." What did Marshall mean?
A) Democracy and freedom relied on a stable economy.
B) Poverty and Communist slavery were the same thing.
C) American aid to Europe was not the product of political considerations at all.
D) The United States wanted to see poverty and desperation turn the Soviet Union into a society in chaos.
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