But so long as he had no new policy, so long as he sought only to contain, the enemy without would always hold the initiative.
And domestic leaders of the Democratic Party were totally unfit by training and inclination for playing roles in foreign affairs.
In effect, Truman had engaged the nation in war by executive action.
They have never failed to resort to guns, however, when other means fail.
Is desperately hard for men to accept that there is a direct path from the highest ideals to the torture chamber—for
Was significant that every historic decision of the Truman Cabinet was debated by Congress only after it had been made irreversible.
A diplomat’s words must have no relation to actions—otherwise what kind of diplomacy is it? Words are one thing, actions another. Good words are a concealment of bad deeds. Sincere diplomacy is no mor...
Washington had not even one pipeline into official circles of enemy capitals; they could not even estimate what the potential aggressor was thinking or might do.
The time would come when every leader in the world would read the writings of the Chinese Communists—for it was barely possible that the war they waged was not so anachronistic as Americans believed....
These: men had no hope of, nor interest in, making the world safe for democracy, or of destroying evil. They were vitally concerned with the continued good of the United States, and with preserving so...
The social problems, of course, were not solved. A solution to these can be anticipated only when all men look alike, hold the same views, or are so apathetic that it no longer matters.