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Ambassador Kennan shunned Yugoslav friends for nearly three months until orders came from Washington to negotiate the sale of 500,000 tons of wheat, half the amount requested. Cheered by the news, Kennan attended Tito's annual hunt for Belgrade's diplomatic chiefs of mission. At the traditional hunt dinner (which went on until 6 a.m.), Kennan was surprised to find himself the guest of honor, seated between Tito and Edvard Kardelj, the party theoretician who is Tito's likely successor. For several hours Kennan aired his grievances before Yugoslavia's top leadership. Shorn...
...Berlin. Kennan fired off angry cables to Washington. Shortly afterward, President Kennedy called for a review of U.S. aid to Yugoslavia. To many people in the drought-ridden country, it looked like retaliation for Tito's speech, although Kennan told an aide: "I would never play politics with Yugoslav stomachs...
...conducted a running feud with Borba, the party sheet, and the government daily Politika. (He reads five papers in three languages daily.) "Shocked" by consistent distortion of events in the U.S.-which has pumped $2.1 billion in aid into the country, with its allies takes 60% of all Yugoslav exports-Kennan has fired off five angry letters to the papers. Their editors were flattered to be addressed by Professor Kennan, failed to print the letters, but last fortnight Borba's editor in chief paid him the rare honor, for a Westerner, of giving a dinner party at which Kennan...
George Kennan plainly thrives on the controversy. Says he: "It's a vacation from the strains of scholarship. I feel like a boy out of school." Kennan and his Norwegian-born wife Annelise entertain to advantage (nearly 300 Yugoslavs so far) in their house, just down the street from Tito's villa. He has had six private sessions with Tito, more than any of the 45 other ambassadors in Belgrade. He explores the countryside on horseback or by car, has been busily reading Yugoslav literature (including all four novels by 1961 Nobel Laureate Ivo Andric). When he found...
Dictating at breakneck speed without rewriting a word, Kennan turns out some of the best telegrams in the Foreign Service-and he does not necessarily stick to Yugoslav affairs. A Kennan cable is apt to begin: "While bowing to Tommy Thompson's superior knowledge since he is on the scene in Moscow, I do believe it might be useful to consider...