Prague- Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek compared the U.S.-Czech treaty on the installation of a missile defence radar on Czech soil to the Marshall Plan of the 1940s and 1950s, after meeting U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice today. Rice has arrived in Prague this morning to sign the radar treaty with her Czech counterpart Karel Schwarzenberg. Topolanek said Czechoslovakia's then decision not to accept the U.S. plan of economic help to the war-afflicted European states was a mistake that Prague must not repeat. "Once in the past, we were in a situation similar to the present, and we failed once already," Topolanek said. The U.S. plan for the post-war renewal of Europe was formulated by then U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947 and it was implemented in 1948-52. The states of central and east Europe,...
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