ition. Mr. Wallace is quoted as saying, It(NATO) demandsspending by Americans without limit in dollars or time. It will create an intolerable burden on ourown people, exacting lower living standards and the loss of fundamental freedoms.9 In readingthat statement you can imagine what it did to the public after hearing it. So you can see that theopposition to the Treaty was backed by distinguished men with very powerful words. In the end,though, the Treaty was approved by the Senate by a vote of 82 to 13. Thus, America finallycould start looking for a good way to use this new alliance. Now in order for one to understand the policies the United States had with NATO it isessential for one to know that for the first twenty years of NATO the United States had four maintypes of foreign policy ideas with respect to NATO. The first main type of policy attitude theUnited States had was called Accommodation which occurred from 1944 to 1950. This meantthat the congressmen didnt think the United States should be so far into Europes business as itwas preparing to be. The congressmen during this era thought that we should be fine because wejust won a war and thought we were losing our fight for peace. President Truman workedthrough this problem by using joint participation by the President and member of congress. Truman overcame congressional resistance to such an active American role abroad only byworking closely with members of Congress and convincing them, and the American people, of thegrave political instability that most European states faced from their economic situation and fromthe growing threat of Soviet communism.10 After swaying the support of Congress Truman wasable to do such tremendous things as; participate in the UN, the International Monetary Fund, thenational security act of 1947 became law, and support of Greece and Turkey was approved. Joint legislative-executive action supported a strong American global role, culminati...
