Word: kennan
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...Following the logic of our present policy in Vietnam, it is difficult to conceive to date of an outcome that would be less than disastrous," foreign policy expert George F. Kennan said yesterday...
Speaking to an enthusiastic audience in Sanders Theatre, Kennan concluded that "a hasty withdrawal from Vietnam would hurt U.S. prestige, but if we can moderate our policy -- by stopping the bombing -- then I think we can get out of there without great damage...
...discussing principles in foreign policy, Kennan, ho has been a University Fellow at Harvard since last year and is a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, said U.S. intervention in Vietnam was not the result of rational policy-making...
...Vietnam involvement marches under the semantic banner as the containment of Communism," Kennan said. As a leading architect of containment and former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Kennan attacked Vietnam as a radical departure from the principles underlying American support of European reconstruction at the end of World...
Died. John Cooper Wiley, 73, U.S. diplomat, whose distinguished 38-year career took him from counselor of the first U.S. embassy in Soviet Russia in 1934 (among his subordinates: George F. Kennan, Charles Bohlen) to chargé d'affaires in Vienna, where he was one of the first to warn of Hitler's Anschluss, and on to ambassadorships in Colombia, Portugal, Iran and Panama, where in 1952 he negotiated a revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty to give Panama greater benefits from the waterway; of pneumonia; in Washington...