"I need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious. That must be apparent to all intelligent people. I think one difficulty is that the problem is one of such enormous complexity that the very mass of facts presented to the public by press and radio make it exceedingly difficult for the man in the street to reach a clear appraisement of the situation. Furthermore, the people of this country are distant …showed first 75 words of 1456 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1456 total…be accused of a lack of foresight. However it could be argued that the government had more immediate concerns such as a food shortage and a lack of basic facilities to deal with. It is only right that these concerns should take precedence over anything else. Marshall Aid laid the foundation stone for Irish economic growth, which was built on in the sixties and thereafter. Ireland had to learn to crawl before it could walk.