Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kennan's not like that, and now that they know it, they have begun to show him extreme friendliness, deference and interest...
Ambassador Kennan shunned Yugoslav friends for nearly three months until orders came from Washington to negotiate the sale of 500,000 tons of wheat, half the amount requested. Cheered by the news, Kennan attended Tito's annual hunt for Belgrade's diplomatic chiefs of mission. At the traditional hunt dinner (which went on until 6 a.m.), Kennan was surprised to find himself the guest of honor, seated between Tito and Edvard Kardelj, the party theoretician who is Tito's likely successor. For several hours Kennan aired his grievances before Yugoslavia's top leadership. Shorn...
...Yugoslavs have learned," says an embassy officer, "that Kennan won't allow the U.S. to be pushed around. Some of his predecessors just shrugged and said, 'Well, it's a Communist country, and they don't like
...Kennan has conducted a running feud with Borba, the party sheet, and the government daily Politika. (He reads five papers in three languages daily.) "Shocked" by consistent distortion of events in the U.S.-which has pumped $2.1 billion in aid into the country, with its allies takes 60% of all Yugoslav exports-Kennan has fired off five angry letters to the papers. Their editors were flattered to be addressed by Professor Kennan, failed to print the letters, but last fortnight Borba's editor in chief paid him the rare honor, for a Westerner, of giving a dinner party...
...George Kennan plainly thrives on the controversy. Says he: "It's a vacation from the strains of scholarship. I feel like a boy out of school." Kennan and his Norwegian-born wife Annelise entertain to advantage (nearly 300 Yugoslavs so far) in their house, just down the street from Tito's villa. He has had six private sessions with Tito, more than any of the 45 other ambassadors in Belgrade. He explores the countryside on horseback or by car, has been busily reading Yugoslav literature (including all four novels by 1961 Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric). When he found...