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...George F. Kennan...
Upon returning to Moscow in 1944 after a seven-year absence, the American diplomat George Kennan was struck by the enigma of an empire both yearning for its rightful place in the modern world and clinging to the enfeebling insularity of its past. "The Anglo-Saxon instinct is to attempt to smooth away contradictions," he wrote. "The Russian tends to deal only in extremes, and he is not particularly concerned to reconcile them. To him, contradiction is a familiar thing. It is the essence of Russia...
When the first attempt to secure Poppe's entrance into the United States failed, Parsons asked Edward Mason, a member of the Russian Research Center's executive committee, to seek help from State Department official George F. Kennan...
...Kennan, the architect of the containment doctrine, personally intervened so Poppe could come to the U.S. Simpson wrote...
...Crimson loses three seniors to graduation--Captain Amy Winston, netminder Liz Wald and forward Ally Kennan...