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Containment Reconsidered
Hughes, H. Stuart | December 16, 1950 issue

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This article analyzes the U.S. policy of containment towards the domination of Soviet Union, after nearly four years of its launch in March, 1947, with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine. The strategy of containment stands at the center of current U.S. policy. Its beginning marked the end of the effort to get along with the Soviet Union an effort pursued with ever-diminishing returns and ever-increasing skepticism during the first year and a half of the U.S. government. At its inception, this policy aroused serious misgivings among most left-of-center opinion and a few independent commentators like Walter Lippmann. Such misgivings were based on a number of predictions as to the consequences of the containment strategy.

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COMMUNISM & international relations; LIPPMANN, Walter, 1889-1974; SKEPTICISM; STRATEGY; UNITED States -- Foreign relations; CONTAINMENT (Political science); SOVIET Union
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