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...George Kennan, 59, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia, is a scholarly yet friendly fellow who likes to receive visitors, ordinarily answers his telephone. But not last week. Newsmen calling Kennan got only aides who repeated, "No comment, no comment." There was a reason for the reticence. Kennan did not want to make a public statement about why he is retiring from diplomatic service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Goodbye to Tito | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...diplomat for 25 years, Kennan was U.S. Ambassador to Russia from March to October, 1952, won recognition as an expert on Communism, spent eight years with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and returned to the Foreign Service with the Kennedys, who posted him to Belgrade in 1961. There, he convinced himself that

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Goodbye to Tito | 5/3/1963 | See Source »

...Senate Foreign Relations Committee opened his call for moderation by pointing out if the West pursues a firm and patently rational policy, then Soviet Russia will follow a policy that is equally sane. Emphasizing that the Communists are unlikely to begin a nuclear war, he quoted George Kennan's observation that "the theory of the inevitability of the eventual fall of capitalism has the fortunate connotation that there is no hurry about it." Fulbright compared the Communists to Hitler's Nazi Germany, observing that "neither Stalin nor his successors have exhibited anything like the suicidal mania of Hitler's Germany...

Author: By Frederic L. Ballard jr., | Title: Fulbright Asks Mature U.S. Viewpoint | 4/30/1963 | See Source »

...Kennan is a former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, and returned to the Foreign Service in January, 1961, when the Kennedy Administration came into office. Before that he had been a professor at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Study, where he devoted himself to a study of 20th century diplomatic history. His latest book, Russia and the West, was published in 1958. Among his other books are Russia, the Atom and the West, and American Diplomacy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennan Will Become University Professor | 4/25/1963 | See Source »

...Kennan is a former Godkin lecturer. He last appeared at Harvard in April, 1960, to lecture on the Soviet Union under Stalin...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Kennan Will Become University Professor | 4/25/1963 | See Source »

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