您知道二次大战的参谋长马歇尔因为计画帮助欧洲各国，包括当时的敌对国自战后复苏，而曾遭指控与卖国贼有所勾结吗？战后数年，马歇尔即饱受攻击，当时许多美国人都因许多世界大事而深感威胁，包括共产主义在中国的胜利、核子弹试爆、东欧受苏联 (Soviet Union) 控制及韩国的全面性战争。而那些于恐惧气氛中，意欲寻求政治利益的人，则将攻击目标指向杜鲁门总统任下，身为国务卿而后成为国防部部长的马歇尔。


Did you know that George C. Marshall, the Army chief of staff during World War II, was accused of associating with traitors in part because he had developed a plan to help the nations of Europe, even our enemies, recover from the war? Marshall came under attack in the years immediately following the war, when many Americans felt threatened by world events that included a communist victory in China, the explosion of a nuclear bomb and the domination of Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union, and a full-scale war in Korea. Marshall, as secretary of state and later as secretary of defense under President Harry S. Truman, was subjected to intense personal assaults from those who sought political gain in this climate of fear.

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