THE PRESIDENCY: No Cause for Alarm?

The question, "What is Russia up to?" was being answered by Russia in Iran and elsewhere (see INTERNATIONAL), but no one answered the other puzzle: "What is Harry Truman up to?"

At Fulton, Mo., a fortnight ago, the President had listened with apparent approval to Winston Churchill's words and applauded them. But when public reaction to Churchill's proposal for a "fraternal association" turned out to be largely adverse, Harry Truman pulled back into his shell, even declared that he had not known in advance what Churchill was going to say. If he had any decisive foreign policy of his own,...

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