Brisk and smiling, President Truman strode into the House of Representatives this week to face a joint meeting of the Congress and read his annual message on the State of the Union. He was speaking to the critics of his foreign policythough not always too clearlyand over their heads, more clearly, to the "Soviet imperialists" who were trying to subvert the world with their "destructive works."
Speaking with a resoluteness and a crisp delivery he had seldom shown before, Harry Truman laid down the course for meeting the Soviet peril "wisely . . . bravely . . . honorably," as he saw...
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