Truman¿s Balancing Act: Image and Foreign Policy Palestine and Israel

Anyone that sifts through the archives cannot help but conclude that after World War II the Soviet threat along with the creation of a safe place for the Jewish people were of great concern to both the public and the Truman administration. It would also seem that among the voices of support for the Jewish peoples cause for both immigration and creation of a homeland rose President Harry S. Truman. Beyond discovering what were President Truman¿s real objectives for supporting the creation of Israel an image of him emerged. The central aspects of this investigation include the most prominent public perceptions of President Truman¿s image or images during and after the creation of Israel. In addition, the effect and purpose of Truman¿s image within a larger framework of the Cold War Foreign Policy then the correlation between the United States national myth and the support of the creation of Israel in Palestine.