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Other appointments include Myrl Duncan '54, Chairman of the Appointment Bureau Committee; Betsy Steiner '55 and Elizabeth Young '54, heads of volunteer work for the Community Service Committee, and Norma Glazier '54, and Grace Kennan '54, co-chairmen of fund raising for the same committee...
...George F. Kennan, the State Department's "Mr. X," was named new U.S. Ambassador to this country...
...legation in Riga, Latvia, to help U.S. Ambassador William Bullitt open the first U.S. embassy in Moscow since the Russian Revolution. In 1946, when he was chargé d'affaires in Moscow, his urgent warnings of Russian aggressive intentions so impressed Secretary of State George Marshall that Kennan was picked in 1947 to head a new policy-planning staff. His "policy of firm containment" (first outlined under the pseudonym "X" in Foreign Affairs in 1947) finally became the basis...
policy in Europe. On leave from State, Kennan has studied U.S. diplomatic history for the past 1 5 months at Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, served (until his resignation five weeks ago) as president of the Ford Foundation's Eastern European fund. Three months ago, in his American Diplomacy, he urged a return from "shallow self-righteousness" and "impractical idealism" to the 19th century ideal of delicate power balances and limited objectives...
...Europe and Asia. Thinks the West should never expect the U.S.S.R. to be a capitalist democracy like the U.S., but that the West could live in peace with a Russia which would: 1) lift the Iron Curtain, 2) give up "the ancient game of imperialist expansion and oppression." Kennan suffers from no illusion that he can perform any solo miracles in his new job. Wrote he as Mr. X : "The foreign representative cannot hope that his words will make any impression on [ the Russian leaders] . . . Facts speak louder than words to the ears of the Kremlin; and words carry...