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A young girl at a spring fair in Vienna, Austria, in 1951, holds a bouquet of hydrogen-filled balloons advertising the Marshall Plan. Reading "Peace, Freedom, Welfare" in German, the balloons were released by visitors at the fair, carrying postcards expressing the hope that "someday goods and products will flow freely across the countries of a united and prosperous Europe" into the Eastern Bloc. The balloons were one of many ways America and its allies strived to counter negative Soviet propaganda against the reconstruction and economic development plan.
(AP/WWP)
