On March 12th, 1947, President Harry S. Truman, addressing a joint Congress, talked about his plans for the containment of communist. He told of the horrors committed in Greece and Turkey, and how they are fighting for freedom from the chains of Communism but, due to the War, are struggling to remain free from the Soviet Union's influence. He then asks Congress to aid both the countries by giving them $400,000,000 as "an investment in world freedom and world peace".
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