"[1][2][3][4][5] The committee disbanded not long after April 3, 1948, when U.S. President Harry S. Truman signed the Marshall Plan into law, which granted $5 billion in aid to 16 European nations.
Postwar anti-Communism, pullback to American isolationism, and general conservative backlash led U.S. Republican Party politicians like U.S.
To sway public opinion, the committee advertised, issued various documents (press releases, editorials, policy papers), sponsored radio broadcasts, hired speakers bureaus.
Dean Acheson went on his own speaking tour, which included Palo Alto, Portland, Spokane, Minneapolis, and Duluth.
[1] On November 16, 1947, Alger Hiss published an essay that appeared on four pages of The New York Times Sunday Magazine, entitled "The Basic Question in The Great Debate."
[1] Of the committee's executive board members,[9] eight served on the Council on Foreign Relations, of which another two were members of the BAC, CED, or NPA[clarification needed] – Allen Dulles (Council on Foreign Relations) and Philip Reed (Chairman of General Electric).