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...loneliest man in Time's man-of-the-week club of 1962 must be George F. Kennan, U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia. Kennan is featured in this week's issue together with Edwin O. Reischauer and John Kenneth Galbraith, Harvard professors who are currently on leave as ambassadors, and are the third and fourth Harvard men to appear on the magazine's cover in two weeks...
...merely that almost everything about Soviet Russia is arguable; but much of his analysis-particularly his criticism of the Allies' World War II policy of unconditional surrender -is brilliant. Now U.S. Ambassador to Yugoslavia and long one of the State Department's top-ranking experts on Russia, Kennan writes in prose that is unfailingly graceful...
...Russia and the West--Kennan...
...Yugoslavia under close review. President Kennedy was angered by the hostility Tito displayed toward the West at the Belgrade conference of neutrals last month. Requesting a 500,000-ton shipment of surplus U.S. wheat to supplement their poor harvest, Yugoslav officials were informed last week by U.S. Ambassador George Kennan that no such commitment would be made-at least for the time being. Clearly, the choice was up to Tito: whether to be at least reasonably friendly toward the U.S. or to forgo its much-needed...
...Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan...