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...Following the logic of our present policy in Vietnam, it is difficult to conceive to date of an outcome that would be less than disastrous," foreign policy expert George F. Kennan said yesterday...
Speaking to an enthusiastic audience in Sanders Theatre, Kennan concluded that "a hasty withdrawal from Vietnam would hurt U.S. prestige, but if we can moderate our policy -- by stopping the bombing -- then I think we can get out of there without great damage...
...discussing principles in foreign policy, Kennan, ho has been a University Fellow at Harvard since last year and is a professor at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, said U.S. intervention in Vietnam was not the result of rational policy-making...
Died. John Cooper Wiley, 73, U.S. diplomat, whose distinguished 38-year career took him from counselor of the first U.S. embassy in Soviet Russia in 1934 (among his subordinates: George F. Kennan, Charles Bohlen) to chargé d'affaires in Vienna, where he was one of the first to warn of Hitler's Anschluss, and on to ambassadorships in Colombia, Portugal, Iran and Panama, where in 1952 he negotiated a revision of the 1903 Canal Treaty to give Panama greater benefits from the waterway; of pneumonia; in Washington...
...Drawing Back." Friendly quit after a hassle with his group vice president, John Schneider. CBS had already broadcast General James Gavin's testimony live from gavel to gavel. Schneider decided to forgo televising the next day's hearings, featuring ex-Diplomat George Kennan, in favor of a taped condensation to be run later. What burned Friendly even more was that NBC covered the proceedings while CBS was showing stale reruns from I Love Lucy. All this made Friendly most unfriendly, especially toward Schneider...