Volume 24, Number 12 · July 14, 1977
Russia, the West, and the Rest
By Ronald Steel
The Cloud of Danger: Current Realities of American Foreign Policy
by George F. Kennan
Atlantic-Little, Brown, 234 pp., $8.95
Revolution in the Third World
by Gerard Chaliand
Viking, 256 pp., $10.95
Thirty years ago this summer, George Kennan, recently returned from the mists of the Moscow embassy, erupted in public with the news that the Soviets were intent on pushing into 'every nook and cranny' and could be contained only by the 'adroit and vigilant application of counter-force' wherever they penetrated. It was what he had told his admiring boss, Averell Harriman, and just what the top men in Washington—Truman, Acheson, and Forrestal—wanted to hear. Kennan's pseudonymous 'X' article in Foreign Affairs, presenting to the public what he had earlier laid out for his superiors in his 'long telegram' from Moscow, provided the intellectual justification for a global confrontation with communism.
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