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...enemies that N.E.A. had in mind were no ordinary critics of the public schools. They were a handful of right-wing groups that have made their influence felt from Port Washington, N.Y., to Pasadena, Calif. "They have one characteristic in common: bigotry," said Richard B. Kennan of the N.E.A.'s Defense Commission. Their chief obsession: that U.S. education is headed straight for Communism...
George F. Kennan, former State Department counselor and member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N.J D.C.L...
...Yalta, Franklin Roosevelt, in trying to persuade Stalin to join in the Pacific war, had bribed him with Dairen and Port Arthur and the railways of Manchuria, and thereby had thrown China's door open to Russia. The views of such experts on Russia as George Kennan were rejected. No White Paper arguments could alter the fact that a majority of U.S. advisers on China were uncomprehending or prejudiced; that China policy was being made in Washington largely by the haters of Chiang's Kuomintang government; that no one who warned of the threat of Asiatic Communism...
Other statements made during the Prime Minister's visit by President Truman, Vice-President Barkley, Walter Lippmann '10, and George Kennan, the State Department official, are included in the book...
...Louis J. Halle, 39, not to be confused with Mr. "X" (George Kennan), author of the July 1947 Foreign Affairs article favoring a policy of world-wide containment of Russia...