Word: kennan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Switzerland seven weeks ago, Svetlana turned the manuscript over to the U.S. State Department. State passed it on to former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow George Kennan, a Russian scholar who is at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study. Kennan was impressed. Svetlana's memoirs, he found, are not an expose of Stalin's sins but a "literary and philosophical document" of human reaction to the Stalin era. He telephoned Washington to offer his services to Svetlana as a private citizen. He also called his neighbor in Princeton, Edward S. Greenbaum, 77, a literary lawyer whose most celebrated...
...Following are excerpts, from a speech given by University Fellow George F. Kennan Wednesday in Sanders Theater...
...Vietnam the U.S. has undertaken the job of reconstructing Vietnamese society single handedly, Kennan maintained, whereas under the Marshall Plan, "what seemed necessary was to encourage the development of indigenous political movements against Communism...
...preponderance of U.S. strength in Vietnam, Kennan said with regret, was geared to destruction rather than construction. "People resist Communism only to the extent that they can be shown higher and more positive goals than mere defense," he explained...
...Kennan called for a return to policy making which more clearly defined national interests, and avoided moral pretensions. He criticized the practice of justifying Vietnam policy in legalistic and moralistic terms such as "opposing aggression," and "fighting for freedom...