Harvard University will host an international symposium this June to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the announcement of the Marshall Plan.

On June 5, 1947, Gen. George C. Marshall, then U.S. Secretary of State, delivered a Harvard Commencement address outlining the aid program that became known as the Marshall Plan. The symposium will take place June 3 and 4, during the week of the University's 1997 Commencement celebrations.

Titled "Retrospect and Renewal: U.S.-European Cooperation Fifty Years after the Marshall Plan," the symposium will feature panels of scholars and public figures from the U.S. and Europe who will discuss the history of the plan and its implications for issues of development and international relations today.

The first day's events will open with a 5 p.m. reception at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Adolphus Busch Hall. This will be followed by a panel, "Remembering the Marshall Plan," that will reunite participants from the era who will respond to questions by a group of historians and political scientists.

Discussants include: Robert Bowie, former special assistant to the deputy military governor for Germany; John Kenneth Galbraith, the Paul M. Warburg Professor of Economics, Emeritus, at Harvard; Lincoln Gordon, who served with the State Department and with the Economic Cooperation Administration (ECA); Albert Hirschman, the

Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Political Economy, Emeritus; Paul Porter, former assistant administrator of the ECA; Sir Eric Roll, former assistant secretary of the British Ministry of Food and the Ministry of

the Treasury; Thomas Schelling, Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Maryland; and Raymond

Vernon, former assistant chief of the U.S. State Department's international resources division.

The historians and political scientists include: Charles S. Maier, the Krupp Foundation Professor of European Studies at Harvard and director of the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies; Alan Milward, Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics; and George Ross, the Morris Hillquit Professor of Labor and Social Thought at Brandeis University.

The following day's program, titled "Retrospect and Renewal," will begin at 9:15 at the Kennedy School of Government's ARCO Forum. The morning's discussion, "Fostering Global Prosperity: Lessons from the Era of the Marshall Plan," will focus on the international economy and is slated to include: Jeffrey Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development; Maier (chair), and Helmut Schlesinger, former president of the Deutsche Bundesbank. Also invited are officials of the French Socialist Party and the European Union and the president of the World Bank.

A second panel, "U.S. Leadership, International Security, and Democratization," will begin at 2:30 p.m. and will feature: Graham Allison, the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government at the Kennedy School; François Heisbourg, director of strategic development for Matra Défense; Stanley Hoffmann, the Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard; Shirley Williams, the Public Service Professor of Electoral Politics at the Kennedy School; and Joseph S. Nye, Jr., the Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy and Dean of the Kennedy School (chair). Also invited are two U.S. senators, a Russian government official, and the president of a major international policy foundation.

The symposium has been jointly organized by Maier and Nye. Tuesday's events will be by invitation only. Wednesday's events will be free and open to the public.