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...monster-size rockets. But the Carter Administration may bear some blame for the impasse because it badly miscalculated the response that both its human rights campaign and its sweeping arms-reduction proposals last March would trigger from the Russians. The Administration, says Veteran Kremlin-watcher George Kennan, "made just about every mistake it could make in these Moscow talks and has defied all the lessons we have learned in dealing with the Soviets since the last World...
...April, Marshall had come back from Moscow convinced that the Russians had every intention of exploiting Europe's misery. Then in May, Will Clayton, his Under Secretary for Economic Affairs, reported a rapidly worsening situation. Immediately, Marshall had given George F. Kennan and his policy planning staff two weeks to draft a plan to save Europe. Under Secretary Dean Acheson, as well as Clayton, contributed heavily to the proposals that were boiled down into the 950-word speech. Now Marshall came to the meat...
Among the other gobblers were Asst. Director of Personnel Clarence Cooper, History Professor Edward Kennan, and Assistant Director of Athletics Niki Janus...
...that drew up the United Nations Charter; Fosdick contended that she had been chief assistant to the secretary general of the U.S. delegation-and that Rocky knew it. Before she joined Jackson in 1955, she was a member of the State Department's policy planning staff under George Kennan and Paul Nitze...
Soviet officials are also impressed. Says one: "We do not have entirely fond memories of Ambassador Kennan himself [the Kremlin declared him persona non grata after he denounced Stalinism in 1953], but we regard the formation of his institute as a positive development." Indeed, the Russians feel that in the Institut Imyeni Kennana the U.S. finally has a worthy counterpart to Moscow's U.S.A. Institute-a think tank for Americanologists in the Soviet Union...