Question

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read the question carefully and select the best answer.

which of the following quotes best summarizes the larger crisis facing europe?
a. \i need not tell you gentlemen that the world situation is very serious. that must be apparent to all intelligent people.\
b.
aw materials and fuel are in short supply. machinery is lacking or worn out.\
c. \...europes requirements for the next three or four years of foreign food and other essential products—principally from america—are so much greater than her present ability to pay that she must have substantial additional help...\
d. \the remedy lies in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the european people in the economic future of their own countries and of europe as a whole.\
best: el-eua-k12-ee-21

Explanation:

Option D captures the core of Europe's post-WWII crisis: a lack of economic confidence and a vicious cycle of decline that underpinned all other issues (resource shortages, inability to pay for imports). The other options only address specific symptoms, while this quote summarizes the overarching crisis and its needed resolution.

Answer:

D. "The remedy lies in breaking the vicious circle and restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole."