(07.05 MC) Read the following passage carefully before you c…
(07.05 MC) Read the following passage carefully before you choose your answer. This passage is taken from a speech given by President Ronald Reagan to the people of West Berlin in 1987. “In this season of spring in 1945, the people of Berlin emerged from their air-raid shelters to find devastation. Thousands of miles away, the people of the United States reached out to help. And in 1947 Secretary of State—as you’ve been told—George Marshall announced the creation of what would become known as the Marshall Plan. Speaking precisely 40 years ago this month, he said: ‘Our policy is directed not against any country or doctrine, but against hunger, poverty, desperation, and chaos.'” In this paragraph, the speaker includes the quotation about the intention of the policy to