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...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...
...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 the greatest weight when they have the ring of . . . being backed up by facts of unchallengeable validity...
...camps is Augustdorf, in Westphalia. Nearly a quarter of the 1,800 people there have tuberculosis; 180 of the children are illegitimate. A spot on a lung in Augustdorf, as in the other camps, is a standard blackball against emigration; there is a black market in X-ray plates of healthy lungs...
...wife and four children: Olga, now 19; Roman, 18; Irena, 16; and Eugenia, 15. Recently he got an offer to move to the U.S. to work on a tobacco farm near Buffalo. The family packed and got set to go. Then pale Olga pressed her flat chest against the X-ray plate: a spot on one lung-active TB. Ineligible...
...British Museum in London, Dr. T. C. Skeat studied the X-ray pictures and agreed that "Diana" had probably been murdered, had certainly been misnamed. Skeat retranslated the inked inscription on the mummy's chest wrappings, announced that the boy's name was Panechates, son of Hatres. Undoubtedly of noble birth, the unlucky child may have been liquidated by an ambitious rival. Burial took place some time in the 3rd century...