What 1947 U.S. policy is described in the following statement? "It must be the policy of the United States to support free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures."

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The statement describes the Truman Doctrine, which was articulated by President Harry S. Truman in 1947. The doctrine was aimed at containing the spread of communism by providing political, military, and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.