<P> The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan during the post-World War II administration of U.S. President Harry S. Truman . As a description of U.S. foreign policy , the word originated in a report Kennan submitted to U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal in 1947 , which was later used in a magazine article . It is a translation of the French term cordon sanitaire , which was used to describe Western policy toward the Soviet Union in the 1920s . </P>
<P> The basis of the doctrine was articulated in a 1946 cable by U.S. diplomat George F. Kennan during the post-World War II administration of U.S. President Harry S. Truman . As a description of U.S. foreign policy , the word originated in a report Kennan submitted to U.S. Defense Secretary James Forrestal in 1947 , which was later used in a magazine article . It is a translation of the French term cordon sanitaire , which was used to describe Western policy toward the Soviet Union in the 1920s . </P>
which american policy maker applied the phrase containment to foreign policy
which american policy maker applied the phrase containment to foreign policy
George F. Kennan
George F. Kennan