Mr. Marshall, the American Secretary of State, is not yet
a familiar figure to most people in this country, in spite of the part the plan that bears his name plays in every political or economic discussion. Some measure of his calibre is given in a passage from the late Mr. Winant's Letter From Grosvenor Square, published on Wednes- day of this week. The Ambassador had been writing of General Grant and the secret of his success as a soldier. "And then," he goes on, " I thought of George Marshall. Grant would have compre- hended the man—this tall figure who could grasp the total reach of war with practicality, imagination and global-mindedness. . . I remember Churchill turning to me towards the end of the war and saying ' Perhaps he was the greatest Roman of them all." That was General Marshall. What we owed to him in the war is not yet fully realised. It may yet be that our debt to Mr. Marshall the statesman may in history bulk larger still.
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