Truman’s globalism encountered prominent critics, among them former vice president Henry Wallace, isolationist senator Robert A. Taft, and columnist Walter Lippmann, who warned variously that the policy would bankrupt the Treasury and that it marked a misreading of both Soviet capabilities and intentions.30 The critique failed to find traction in the halls of power in Washington, for by spring 1947, Soviet hostility was a staple of both policy documents and much journalistic reporting.
