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George F. Kennan announced Friday he will return next fall to Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study after resigning as U.S. ambassador to Yugoslavia. In a Belgrade press conference, Kennan said he had notified the White House and the State Department a year ago of his intention to retire in July from the Foreign Service and resume teaching...
After lunch with Popovic and a reception at the U.S. embassy given by retiring U.S. Ambassador George Kennan, Rusk paid a call on Tito in his Belgrade villa. Yugoslavia has some 1956 vintage U.S. military equipment for which Tito would like spare parts since 50% of Yugoslavia's commerce is with the West, it is worried about the rising tariff walls of the six-nation Common Market. Naturally, Tito raised the problem of "most favored nation" status which, if eliminated, could sharply boost import levies on Yugoslavia's $30 million annual trade with the U.S. Rusk could offer...
...foreign aid and trade concessions might really woo Tito away from Communism. A lot of Americans were skeptical, but Kennan persisted. Then, at the famed "neutralist" conference in Belgrade in September 1961, Tito pulled out the rug with a vicious anti-Western speech...
...Kennan thereafter suffered a deep sense of betrayal-not on Tito's part, but on that of the folks back home. Said he privately: "I feel silenced. We are paralyzed here. I would have fought like a tiger, and many Yugoslavs would have supported us. But we have silenced them...
Rather than take a post elsewhere, Kennan is returning to ivied halls, this time most likely at Harvard...