The Cold War continues: George F. Kennan, Deputy Chief of the United states Mission in Moscow, Soviet Union, transmits an 8,000-word telegram (the “Long Telegram”) to to James F. Byrnes, secretary of state, warning of the confrontational, expansionist intentions of the Soviet Union that must be contained.
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References:
James Carroll, House of War: The Pentagon and the disastrous rise of American power, (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2006), 127-37.
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