The accords were fig leaves of democratic procedure to hide the nakedness of Stalinist dictatorship.

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.

foreign policy. Soon thereafter U. S.