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Henry Stuart Hazlitt was an American journalist who wrote about business and economics for such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Nation, The American Mercury, Newsweek, and The New York Times.
A good snapshot of some conservative thinking at the time that the Marshall Plan was a "retreat from the Truman Doctrine" which would result in decreased American living standards, higher real rates of taxation in the future and the weakening of private international finance. Didn't exactly end up playing out like that obviously.