The truth is sometimes a poor competitor in the market place of ideas – complicated, unsatisfying, full of dilemmas, always vulnerable to misinterpretation and abuse.

S. (1972) Memoirs: 1950–1963 Boston: Little Brown and Company OCLC 4047526 . To counter this potential source of Soviet influence Kennan's solution was to direct economic aid and covert political help to Japan and Western Europe to revive Western governments and prop up international capitalism; by doing so the United States would help to rebuild the balance of power.

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