Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...discarding process will not be easy, for Old Bolshevik Molotov, as George Kennan puts it, is "a smart old fox. He has extraordinary qualities of survival, or he wouldn't have lived through the Stalin regime." In Communist eyes, Molotov's preservatives are great ability and slavish loyalty. At a time when internal Soviet necessity demands a double-headed policy of making war through peace, Vyacheslav Molotov is an extremely useful...
Radcliffe juniors and sophomores will vote today and tomorrow for next year's class officers. Nancy Fisher, Grace Kennan, and Helene Raff are nominees for senior class president; the junior ballot is still incomplete...
Washington last month checked on the acceptability of Charles E. Bohlen as U.S. Ambassador to replace George F. Kennan, declared unacceptable by the Russians. The Russian reply: Bohlen is persona grata. Then, where the Administration did not expect it, trouble arose...
Some Senate Republicans, studying Bohlen's record, had doubts. Handsome, Harvard-bred "Chip" Bohlen has made Russia his special field ever since he entered the Foreign Service in 1929. State assigned him to study Russian, sent him to Moscow (along with Kennan) in the '30s. Russia fascinated Bohlen; he even became an expert balalaika player. By 1944 he was chief of Eastern European Affairs (Russia, Poland, the Baltic countries) in Washington. At Teheran and Yalta, Bohlen served as interpreter and aide for Franklin Roosevelt. He sat with F.D.R. and Averell Harriman, facing Stalin, Molotov and their interpreter, Pavlov...
Bohlen is regarded, with George F. Kennan whom he succeeds as ambassador, as the nation's foremost authority on Russia, and as the American who knows Stalin best. He served as interpreter for President Roosevelt and President Truman...