Jim’s Reviews > Saving Freedom: Truman, the Cold War, and the Fight for the Future of Europe > Status Update

Truman then moved to the central message of his speech...: "I believe it must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures." This sentence, one of the most sweeping and consequential in the era in which it was delivered by an American president, was greeted with silence.