. . . I believe that it must be the policy of the United Sta…
. . . I believe that it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. I believe that we must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way. I believe that our help should be primarily through economic and financial aid which is essential to economic stability and orderly political processes. . . . President Harry Truman, speech to Congress (Truman Doctrine), March 12, 1947 The program described in this quotation was part of the foreign policy of