Manuscript Library, Princeton University.
35 GFK European trip diary, June 19–25, 1924, GFK Papers, 230:16.
36 Ibid., June 26–July 1, 1924.
37 Ibid., July 2–16, 1924.
38 Ibid., July 17–26, 1924.
39 Ibid., July 27–29, 1924.
40 Ibid., July 30–August 23, 1924.
41 Ibid., August 23–15, 1924; CKB interview, p. 8.
42 GFK to JKH, March 8, 1922, GFK Papers, 23:10; JKH interview, p. 23; GFK interview, August 24, 1982, p. 5; KWK interview, p. 4; GFK Diary, May 9, 1924, JEK Papers.
43 GFK to JKH, incorrectly marked “1924,” and May 1, 1923, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 17–18; JKH interview, p. 20; KWK interview, p. 7.
44 GFK European trip diary, August 4, 1924, GFK Papers, 230:16.
45 GFK to KKK, October 20, 1924, ibid., 53:7; GFK European trip diary, July 25, 1924, ibid., 230:16. This Harriman was the railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, father of W. Averell Harriman, under whom George served in the U.S. embassy in Moscow during World War II.
46 GFK to KKK, October 20, 1924, GFK Papers, 53:7; GFK European trip diary, July 30, 1924, GFK Papers, 230:16.
47 GFK, Memoirs, I, 17; GFK interview, August 24, 1982, p. 9; GFK to KKK, January 19, 1925 [misdated 1924], GFK Papers, 53:7.
48 GFK, Memoirs, I, 17; Joseph C. Green to GFK, October 25, 1925, Philip A. Brown to GFK, November 27, 1925, both in JEK Papers.
49 GFK commencement address, Dartmouth College, June 11, 1950, GFK Papers, 299:40; GFK, Memoirs, I, 15, 18; Nassau Herald, June 15, 1925, p. 227. I am indebted to Daniel J. Linke, University Archivist and Curator of Public Policy Papers at Princeton, for providing me with a copy of Kennan’s academic transcript.
50 GFK, Memoirs, I, 16. The chameleon image comes from Axtell, Making of Princeton University, p. 111.
THREE ? THE FOREIGN SERVICE: 1925–1931
1 GFK interview by JEK, p. 24, JEK Papers; Heinrichs, American Ambassador, pp. 95–98; Weil, Pretty Good Club, pp. 46–47.
2 GFK interview by JEK, p. 24; GFK to JKH, December 3, 1925, GFK Papers, 23:10. See also, on the Crawford School, Bohlen, Witness to History, p. 5.
3 GFK interview by JEK, pp. 23–24; GFK to JKH, October 28, 1925, GFK Papers, 23:10.
4 GFK interview by JEK, p. 24; GFK, Memoirs, I, 18.
5 Joseph C. Grew to GFK, September 9, 1926, DSR-DF 1910–29, Box 548, 123 K36/orig.; GFK draft speech (unused) to Princeton alumni, February 5, 1953, GFK Papers, 252:11; GFK, Memoirs, I, 19–20; GFK poem copied in diary for January 18, 1930, GFK Papers, 230:20; GFK interview by JEK, p. 25.
6 GFK, Memoirs, I, 20–21.
7 GFK Diary, July 4, 1927.
8 Ibid., May 20, 1927.
9 GFK, Memoirs, I, 13.
10 Ibid., pp. 20–21.
11 GFK Diary, May 16 and 26, 1927.
12 Ibid., May 24, 1927.
13 Ibid., July 14, 1927.
14 Ibid., October 30 and November 3, 1927.
15 Ibid., September 10, October 9, 10, 30, November 5 and 28, 1927.
16 Ibid., November 7, 1927. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 22; and GFK, Sketches from a Life, p. 4, where he prints this passage but edits out the word “Jewish.”
17 GFK Diary, November 1 and 30, 1927.
18 GFK, Memoirs, I, 20; GFK Diary, November 12, 1927; GFK to Department of State, November 22, 1927, DSR-DF 1910–29, Box 548, 123K36/19. See also GFK, Sketches from a Life, pp. 5–6.
19 EJN to the Foreign Service Personnel Board, December 7, 1927, DSR-DF 1910–29, Box 548, 123K36/19; State Department to GFK, December 9, 1927, ibid.; GFK to State Department, January 6 and April 24, 1928, ibid., Box 1476, 123K36/22 and 25; Cassels, “‘Mr. X’ Goes to Moscow,” p. 88; GFK, Memoirs, I, 23.
20 Ibid.
21 GFK interview by JEK, p. 26; GFK to JKH, September 3, 1928, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 7.
