Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week State announced that Phil Jessup was sticking to his decision to leave Government service next March. His notice followed by a week the resignation of Policy Planner George ("Mr. X") Kennan, who will leave in June after spending the most of the next six months reviewing U.S. policy in Latin America and Africa. Like Kennan, Jessup yearned for the quiet of academic life. He reckoned he was just about eleven months behind schedule in returning to the Hamilton Fish Chair of International Law and Diplomacy at Columbia where, a scholarly friend explained, he had some "grinding" thinking...
Lippmann is opposed to the Truman Doctrine and to the thinking of State Department Planner George Kennan which helped shape it. For two years, Lippmann has argued that: 1) the U.S. cannot "contain" Russia on the whole periphery of the Soviet Union; 2) that Soviet power is unlikely to "mellow" under containment; and 3) that a settlement with Russia should be sought that would result in the withdrawal from Germany of the Western armies as well as of the Red army...
Beneath the official calm, there were some barely discernible stirrings. Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching called in his assistants for new strategy meetings to see if anything further could be done about the steel strikes. In the State Department, Counselor George Kennan set to work imagining himself in the Kremlin, trying to guess how the new bomb would influence Stalin's thinking and plans. Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon called AEC officials to closed sessions of his Joint Atomic Energy Committee and talked vaguely of "more bucks" for the nation's atomic program...
...personal reticence-that gravity and sobriety that had made many of his diplomatic colleagues find him chilly. He is on a first-name basis with such key officials as Dean Acheson, John Snyder, State's Assistant Secretary Jack Hickerson. With the more intellectual U.S. policymakers, e.g., Planner George Kennan, he spends long quiet evenings, far from the distracting clink of the cocktail glasses. Although he has deliberately thawed his manner-as part of his job of thawing U.S. dollars, Franks's conversation still reflects the icy clarity of his mind...
...Kennan pressed the argument...