Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslavia went Bonn Correspondent Jim Bell to see Ambassador Kennan. Bell, through the years, has been a constant reader of Kennan's output, visited with him in October to get his views on Moscow's 22nd Party Congress. Bell went back to Belgrade for the cover story, had three separate interviews with Kennan totaling 4½ hours...
GEORGE FROST KENNAN, 57, Pulitzer-prize winning Kremlinologist (Russia Leaves the War), onetime Ambassador to Moscow (1952), top cold war strategist who shaped the U.S. containment policy and the Marshall Plan. In a sharp policy disagreement with John Foster Dulles, he was shunted aside in 1953 after 25 years in the Foreign Service. He became a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, now is back in diplomacy as Ambassador to Yugoslavia, one of the cold war's key vantage points...
...intellectuals. In a series of major speeches, he has not truckled to their prejudices, but has candidly explored the duties and limitations of free societies. At Madras' Annamalai University recently, he discussed the U.S. role in the world in terms that might also have been used by Colleagues Kennan and Reischauer, and indeed by any U.S. ambassador...
...After hearing Kennan describe Siberia's prison camps, Mark Twain exclaimed: "If such a government cannot be overthrown otherwise than by dynamite, then thank God for dynamite...
...plus allowances, Reischauer also gets $27,500, Kennan...