...Doctrine. Truman asked for and received $400 million from Congress "to help free peoples to maintain... their national integrity against aggressive movements...that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes." Control of the Balkan area before World War II had been in British hands, now too weak to continue....

...influence of the totalitarian menace. Therefore, Truman announced, it was incumbent upon the United States "to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions...integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose on them totalitarian regimes." Having scared the hell out of the country (as Senator Vandenberg had...

...nations, free from coercion, the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations. The United Nations is designed to make possible...integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose on them totalitarian regimes. This is no more than a frank recognition that totalitarian regimes imposed...

..."conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion." We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free people to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements...

...Turkey, President Truman offered those countries economic and military aid and declared it was US policy to "help free peoples to maintain their free institutions...that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes." The new Truman Doctrine required a more substantial and permanent demonstration of US resolve. This...

...responded by enunciating the Truman Doctrine on March 12. In his address he asked the American Congress "to help free peoples to maintain their free institutions...movements that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes."117 The initiation of the Marshall Plan in June, 1947, the formation of the North Atlantic...

...joining the United Nations, Truman said, the United States had acted to insure freedom for all nations. "We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless...that seek to impose upon them totalitarian regimes." He painted a picture of a world teetering toward communist domination. In articulating a set of principles...

...nations, free from coercion, the United States has taken a leading part in establishing the United Nations. The United Nations is designed to make possible lasting freedom and independence for its members. We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free peoples...

...conditions in which we and other nations will be able to work out a way of life free from coercion. . . . We shall not realize our objectives, however, unless we are willing to help free people to maintain their free institutions and their national integrity against aggressive movements...

...help free peoples A Harry S. Truman holds up the premature headline declaring his own election defeat. to maintain their free institutions and their national...integrity against aggressive movements that seek to impose on them totalitarian regimes." The doctrine was announced in the president's speech to the US Congress...