Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that the Russians demanded the recall of our Ambassador to Russia Mr. George F. Kennan. Republican President Herbert Hoover refused to recognize the Russian Communist government; it was only when we got F.D.R. that the Communists were recognized ... In coddling Communists, our entire Government has been tainted with their infiltration. I would vote for any presidential candidate who would throw these evil men out of the country. I think Eisenhower will do it; I know Stevenson will pussyfoot about...
...cringing acceptance of the Kennan insult is outrageous. Since 1947 I have had a growing conviction that our State Department would sacrifice America before they would deviate from diplomatic protocol. How many lessons does our State Department need in order to recognize the fact that in dealing with the Soviets, Das Kapital is their bible and their book of protocol? It is foolish to use diplomatic niceties on a regime which recognizes none of the common usages of civilized society...
...deluded by Soviet attempts to re-establish the united front. But I do see a chance of long-run improvement." (A few days before, Secretary of State Dean Acheson expressed a similarly optimistic opinion despite the recent setbacks to his hopes marked by the barring of Ambassador George Kennan from Moscow...
...usually carried on by its ambassadors. A few days before the Kennan news broke, the new Soviet Ambassador to the U.S., Georgi Zarubin, presented his credentials to Harry Truman and uttered some impeccable, if spectacularly false sentiments about an improvement of U.S.-Russian relations...
...also painted a sinister picture of Kennan on V-E day in Moscow, alleging that he told a British Communist reporter: "Ha! They think the war has ended, and it is really just beginning...