President Truman extends the Monroe Doctrine to cover the ... Its course of action is not fixed–the contradictions between the policy announced for Greece and Turkey and the policy being pursued ...

Truman agreed that the United States would have to step in and support Greece and Turkey. The usual policy of staying out of foreign conflicts unless absolutely necessary was becoming an anachronism.

President Harry Truman's proposal of aid to Greece is "a new beginning in world politics," Hans Kohn, professor of History at Smith College told the United Nations Council Forum at Phillips Brooks ...

In deciding whether to approve additional aid to Ukraine, U.S. House Republicans should read President Harry S. Truman’s speech before a joint session of Congress in March 1947. They need a ...

Today, everyone and his cousin supports the "freedom agenda." Of course, yesterday it was just George W. Bush, Tony Blair and a band of neocons with unusual hypnotic powers who ...

This week in 1947, President Harry Truman addressed Congress and outlined a foreign policy course of action that would become known as "The Truman Doctrine." ...

But his March 12, 1947, Truman Doctrine speech had to convince a war-weary nation to support aid to Greece yet also reassure both Americans and European allies that he was not embarking on war.

President Harry Truman pushed for the treaties and alliances that gave the U.S. a leading role in remaking the world following World War II. Today, President Trump questions their cost and relevance.