In May 1951, the Dutch thank the United States for the help provided under the Marshall Plan during a procession of decorated floats in the streets of Sassenheim.
Dirk Stikker, Netherlands Foreign Minister from 1948 to 1952, describes the economic situation in the Netherlands after the Second World War and recalls the US aid granted to the countries of Europe under the Marshall Plan.
On 14 January 1949, as an information meeting on the Marshall Plan is held in the Netherlands, the Dutch journal Economische Voorlichting publishes an article on the economic and social consequences of the economic aid granted by the United States.
On 25 February 1948, in The Hague, the Executive Board of the International Chamber of Commerce publishes a memorandum in which it describes the economic reconstruction efforts being carried out in postwar Europe.
On 2 July 1948, in The Hague, the governments of the Netherlands and the United States sign an agreement concerning economic cooperation between the two countries in the framework of the Marshall Plan.
In 1949, the Dutch Government publishes a booklet of cartoons in which the illustrator Jo Spier welcomes the benefits of the Marshall Plan for economic and financial reconstruction accorded by the United States to the European countries devastated by the war.
In 1952, the Communist Party of Austria (KPÖ) publishes a poster illustrating the US aid granted to Austria under the Marshall Plan and speculates over the future of the country’s petroleum resources.
