Rothbard describes Senator Robert Taft's opposition to the Truman administration's foreign policy. Taft was isolationist and anti-interventionist, which put him at odds with many in his party and the Democrats who believed in containment and the Cold War. He opposed the Marshall Plan, NATO, and US involvement in Asia. He was particularly courageous in refusing to support Cold War measures in response to the "coup" in Czechoslovakia in 1948, in which rightists resigned, leaving a leftist government in power. Taft believed that the Soviet Union did not plan to initiate aggression or conquer additional territory. He warned that NATO violated the spirit of the UN Charter and that it would inevitably lead to an armament race and war. The antiwar isolationism of the Old Right was defeated during the Korean War. Even the Old Left, except for the Communist Party and I.F. Stone, supported Truman's aggression in the war. Howard Buffett, an extreme right-wing Republican, opposed the war, and I.F. Stone commended him for his leadership. The chapter concludes that it was unfortunate that Buffett did not follow up on Stone's feeler to establish a Left-Right alliance.
