X Article

It was not enough for me to point out the problems of the Soviet Union through my Long Telegram. I needed to publish an article or something that would be publicly displayed. I still needed to express solutions and further details on the Soviet Union because people still believed that since the Soviet Union and the U.S. were allies in defeating Nazi Germany, the two countries were friends. How foolish of them to think so. Was it not obvious that the Soviet Union had other intentions such as spreading communism and it’s power all over the globe? Apparently it was not obvious and I felt it my duty as Deputy Chief of Mission of the United States to open people’s minds up to the truth (since other government officials apparently did not or could not see the reality). I did so through the X Article with my pseudonym of “X” (unfortunately some people found out it was I who had written the article). I clearly pointed out in the article that the Soviet Union was not entirely our friend because our policies were too different, or rather completely contrasting. The U.S. wanted a freer globe while the Soviet Union wanted to strengthen itself through the spread of Communism. Clearly, friendship would be rather difficult in such differing countries. I felt it was necessary to contain the spread of communism. I hated wars so to prevent another war, I decided the U.S. would not touch the areas already affected by communism, but the U.S. should prevent communism from spreading to other nations. I was ever so proud of such an ingenious idea and was happier to see the implementation of my idea. However, when people misunderstood my article to mean that the U.S. would contain the Soviet Union as well, I felt as though I were trapped in a box. People seemed to read my article in ways I did not want it to mean, but I suppose it was due to my mistakes in the way I wrote the passage. Whatever the problem was with the article, I was so stressed by the way it was misinterpreted that I got painful ulcers (could they not have spared a bit of my health by interpreting one article correctly?).