Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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George F. Kennan will come to Harvard next fall to assume the post of University Professor--one of only ten men to hold that title...
Reports in Washington Wednesday said that Kennan would resign his present position as U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia by this summer to accept the University's offer to the prestigious professorship...
Since Russia pulled back in Cuba and the Red Chinese marched into India, the Sino-Soviet split had widened into a chasm. It will probably remain unbridgeable for a long time to come. In Belgrade, U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan predicted that the rift "is on the verge of coming into the open, in the same way that Moscow's fight with Belgrade...
...long as he has no alternative to Soviet support, Fidel Castro's course is determined. We will never know, to use George Kennan's metaphor, whether Castro will go through an open door until we stop trying to push him through a closed...
...House from whacking out the one thing that Kennedy wanted most: freedom to try to pry some nations loose from Moscow with aid. The President summoned congressional leaders of both parties to the White House. Aid Administrator Fowler Hamilton personally pleaded with some 100 Congressmen, and Ambassador George Kennan flew home from his post in Belgrade to make a pitch to the House. The Administration even got key help from Pennsylvania's champion anti-Communist Francis Walter, who argued: "For years one of the major deterrents to World War III has been the resistance of enslaved people to their...