Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the weasel-words translated, George F. Kennan's formula for a Stevenson foreign policy [TIME, June 4] reads...
...would sometimes seem that the intellectual is America's hopeless Displaced Person. He is not only supposed to be the man that Senator McCarthy is after; he is also supposed to be the man that the rest of the nation persistently chooses to ignore or scorn. Diplomat George Kennan has said: "I can think of few countries in the world where the artist, the writer, the composer or the thinker is held in such general low esteem as he is here in our country...
...Kennan Line. Kennan's major theme, set forth in a recent speech to the Foreign Policy Association of Pittsburgh, is that the U.S. ought to "get over the charged and excited quality" of its relations with the Soviets. In the recent Soviet changes he sees the start of a mellowing that overtakes all militant movements. His recommendation: the U.S. should seek a new "normalcy" in learning to live with the Russians...
...Kennan also recommends that the U.S.: Accept "whether we like it or not" that the best hope for the Soviet satellites is for gradual and peaceful evolution to greater independence. "There is a finality, for better or for worse, about what has now occurred in Eastern Europe...
...Harriman Line. With Kennan's basic argument Harriman could hardly disagree more. The disarming Soviet policy of coexistence was set before Stalin's death, Harriman says, and the Soviets still seek world conquest, "but throwing off Stalin makes the new line more plausible." Writing in the Atlantic, he argues that U.S. foreign policy must derive from "moral strength," and especially that the U.S. must "succeed once again in identifying ourselves with anti-colonialism rather than with colonialism...