Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Yugoslavia under close review. President Kennedy was angered by the hostility Tito displayed toward the West at the Belgrade conference of neutrals last month. Requesting a 500,000-ton shipment of surplus U.S. wheat to supplement their poor harvest, Yugoslav officials were informed last week by U.S. Ambassador George Kennan that no such commitment would be made-at least for the time being. Clearly, the choice was up to Tito: whether to be at least reasonably friendly toward the U.S. or to forgo its much-needed...
Last Train over Rostov Bridge is far from great history; neither does it qualify as outstanding story-telling. Nevertheless, it is still a striking account of what must have been quite an adventure. The book doesn't tell nearly as much about the Russian revolution as Kennan's Russia and the West. But it goes a lot faster...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...
...Russians, the Kennedy Administration has compiled fully 54 separate proposals for Berlin, covering a wide assortment of contingencies. To make sure he got a variety of ideas, Kennedy requested memoranda on Berlin from many New Frontiersmen, including U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, Adviser Dean Acheson, Ambassador to Yugoslavia George Kennan, and State Under Secretary Chester Bowles...
...White (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (3) 3. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (4) / 4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (2) / 5. The New English Bible (5) / 6. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (6) / 7. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (7) 8. America - Too Young to Die! DeSeversky »-' 9. The Spanish Civil War, Thomas (8) »-' 10. Nobody Knows My Name, Baldwin...