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...Navy Department, Forrestal began his personal war on Communism. Russian secretiveness and arrogance had aroused his suspicions. He put his staff to work investigating Communist infiltration in the U.S., collected reams of writings on Communism, encouraged George Kennan, chargé d'affaires at the U.S. embassy in Moscow, to write his celebrated "Mr. X" article, which laid the basis for the policy of containment. In 1946 Forrestal persuaded Truman to send warships to the eastern Mediterranean in a show of strength, thus paving the way for U.S. aid to Greece and Turkey. By 1947 Forrestal-with the help...
Technically, he remains Ambassador to Yugoslavia till the end of the month, but when George Kennan, 59, strolled out of the State Department building last week, his on-again, off-again diplomatic career was off again. After goodbyes to such friends as McGeorge Bundy, Averell Harriman and President Kennedy, the noted Kremlinologist was off to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N. J. Kennan is wavering between doing a book on Soviet foreign policy during the last years of the Stalin era or chucking contemporary punditry to "become a real historian and go way back into the 19th century...
...Yugoslav Red Cross broadcast an appeal for blood donations, and one of the first donors was U.S. Ambassador George F. Kennan, on his last day of duty in Belgrade. U.S. Air Force planes from bases all over Europe flew in with help; one entire U.S. Army hospital was moved to the scene from Germany. Twenty Yugoslav medical teams were rushed into Skoplje, army tank trucks brought in desperately needed fresh water, and volunteer workers signed up to help clear away the debris. At least 80% of Skoplje's buildings were destroyed or badly damaged, all utilities disrupted, and more...
George Frost Kennan, author and diplomat, presently U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia . . . LL.D...
...degree recipients in public service have backgrounds in education. Secretary Rusk, whose citation read "resolute, responsible leader in a perilous age who seeks in statecraft a constructive world force," was once Dean of the Mills College Faculty, and served until 1961 as President of the Rockefeller Foundation. Kennan is returning this year to the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeon. Thant ("He reconciles conflicts among the nations and boldly administers a worldwide ecort for human betterment") was a headmaster of Burese schools and state director of Information...