Truman On The Korean War Thoughout Truman's narration of his actions and decisions in regarding the Korean conflict, he strongly emphasizes that his first priority is to prevent a third world war. He addresses that the public has questioned his actions as to why he doesn’t bomb the aggressors (line 5), but he assures that that would only instigate a major war, not help prevent one. Another major complication that would go hand in hand …showed first 75 words of 591 total…

…showed last 75 words of 591 total…paragraph all on its own. Now it's clear that Truman is using a technique of repetition to embed his policy into the reader, into the communists. Before this significant sentence, Truman had been implementing the same idea in the text but mixed in with other policies and goals. Now he puts it in a sentence all by itself and it is now comprehensible that Truman has great concerns and fears the communists power and potential.