![]() ![]() Unfortunately, financial aid proved insufficient to stop the Soviets. The Marshall Plan, as it was called, established cooperation with European nations to prevent hunger and social collapse, and to halt Soviet expansion. soon launched an ambitious plan to rebuild our allies, as well as our former enemies. An editorial from the July 5, 1947, Saturday Evening Post. ( Click to Enlarge) This action might delay further Soviet just long enough to allows the European nations shattered by war to rebuild their economies. ![]() “Just where this will lead is a speculation, as every public act must be in a revolutionary period like the present.” But it would confront the USSR with the possibility that continued actions might mean war. ![]() adopted the Truman policy of containing Soviet aggression, and the Cold War began.Ī July 5, 1947, Post editorial, “Why the Truman Doctrine Makes Sense,” notes there was great deal of uncertainty about such an open-ended doctrine. This is no more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes imposed on free peoples, by direct or indirect aggression, undermine the foundations of international peace and hence the security of the United States….I would not recommend it except that the alternative is much more serious.ĭespite the fact that Truman had an approval rating around 35 percent, and that his party had just lost control of both houses, the predominantly Republican Congress agreed to his request. We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes. He said that America should use financial aid to help struggling nations remain free. President Truman acknowledged the struggle had already begun when, on March 12, he asked Congress for funding to help nations resist subjugation by armed minorities or outside pressures by agents of communism. ![]()
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