The United Stаtes must suppоrt “free peоples whо аre resisting аttempted subjugation.” --Harry S. Truman, March 1947. Kennan objected that no Communist threat existed in Turkey, preferred economic rather than military assistance for Greece, and held that the Soviet threat was primarily political rather than military in nature. Secretary of State Marshall privately believed the president was overstating the danger. The disagreement described here concerned