Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interpreter at Teheran and Yalta, Harry Truman's at Potsdam. Before Bohlen, or anyone else, takes over as the new U.S. Ambassador in Moscow, the Administration will have to decide what to do about the Soviet government's unceremonious booting of former Ambassador George (Containment) Kennan, declared persona non grata last October...
GEORGE F. KENNAN...
...board did not go into "the wisdom or judgment" of the Davies record on China. It heard confidential testimony from the Central Intelligence Agency's General Walter Bedell Smith and Ambassador George Kennan (see LETTERS) concerning recommendations made by Davies for using the services of alleged Communists. The board found that there was no reasonable doubt of Davies' loyalty...
...good huckster, Nenni began by disclaiming any gross material interest in the sale. He was not there "by order of Stalin," he said, but merely to report "conversations that have the advantage of being genuine." Then, smoothly, he began to play upon the fears of his audience: "The Kennan policy of containment . . . has failed." The alternative is "understanding or a third world war ... or maybe 30 years of cold war, which would be just as fatal." Echoing Malenkov, Nenni said that Russia "has no designs of conquest, since she considers her own security guaranteed." Then he had a quote from...
...Wahn airport near Cologne, U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan, now recalled from his duties in Russia by request of his Soviet hosts (TIME, Oct. 13), cheerfully greeted his wife and two youngest children, Wendy, 5 months, and Christopher, 2, as they arrived by plane from Moscow. From the airport, the Kennans went on to Bonn, where the ambassador began preparing a report to Washington...