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22 Eleanor Lake to John Lamberton Harper, July 12, 1990, and June 1991, copies provided by Professor Harper. Eleanor’s son, Anthony Lake, would serve during the Carter administration as director of the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, the position Kennan was the first to fill when the staff was created in 1947.

23 GFK interview, December 13, 1987, pp. 7–8; JKH interview, p. 16. Eleanor Lake, in her July 12, 1990, letter cited above, says that her mother destroyed all of George’s letters to her.

24 GFK to JKH, September 3, 1928, GFK Papers, 23:10.

25 GFK Diary, March 26, 1928.

26 See, for example, entries for December 4, 1927, and March 17, 1928, ibid. George mentions “Peck”—prob-ably Howard F. Peckworth, who graduated from Princeton a year after he did—as his only other confidant in a letter to Jeanette, October 20, 1928, GFK Papers, 23:10, but adds that they have the “sensible” arrangement of corresponding just once a year.

27 GFK, Memoirs, I, 23; Wilbur J. Carr to GFK, March 29, 1928, DSR-DF 1910–29, Box 548, 123K36/25.

28 Saul, War and Revolution, pp. 318–19, 434, 437–40. The Colby note, dated August 10, 1920, is in FRUS: 1920, III, 463–68.

29 Gaddis, Russia, the Soviet Union, and the United States, pp. 98–104.

30 GFK, Memoirs, I, 23. See also DeSantis, Diplomacy of Silence, pp. 27–29; and Engerman, Modernization from the Other Shore, pp. 246–47.

31 GFK, Memoirs, I, 18–19, 24–25; GFK Diary, April 16, 1928.

32 Ibid., April 16, 18, May 6, 1928.

33 Ibid., April 16, May 6, 1928.

34 GFK to JKH, October 20, 1928, GFK Papers, 23:10.

35 GFK Diary, June 1928; GFK, Memoirs, I, 25–27.

36 GFK interview, August 24, 1982, p. 10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 28. See also, on the Riga legation, DeSantis, Diplomacy of Silence, pp. 30–31; Engerman, Modernization from the Other Shore, pp. 247–50; and, for an argument about the lasting influence of service in Riga for American Soviet specialists, Yergin, Shattered Peace.

37 GFK interview, August 24, 1982, pp. 10–11; GFK Diary, July 28–29, September 22, November 4, 1929.

38 GFK Diary, September 4, 6, 1929; GFK, Memoirs, I, 27.

39 GFK Diary, August 5, 1928; GFK, Memoirs, I, 27.

40 Ibid., pp. 28–30; T. W. Wilson report on the American legation in Riga, Latvia, February 20, 1929, Department of State, Inspection Reports, 1906–39, Box 128, National Archives.

41 GFK Diary, January 20, 1929.

42 Ibid.; GFK interviews, August 24, 1982, pp. 10, 16, and August 25, 1982, p. 3.

43 “Report of Consul Carlson on Mr. George F. Kennan,” enclosed in F. W. B. Coleman to the State Department, May 6, 1929, DSR-DF 1910–29, 123K36/49; Wilbur J. Carr to GFK, July 18, 1929, ibid., 123K36/58.

44 GFK Diary, April 20, 1929.

45 Carr to GFK, July 18, 1929, DSR-DF 1910–29, 123K36/58; Raymond H. Geist to the State Department, August 4, 1930, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/81; GFK, Memoirs, I, 31–33.

46 Richie, Faust’s Metropolis, pp. 325, 331; GFK, Memoirs, I, 34–35.

47 GFK interview, December 13, 1987, p. 8; GFK to JKH, March 8, 1930, GFK Papers, 23:10.

48 GFK Diary, January 26, 1930. See also, for the Femina, Richie, Faust’s Metropolis, pp. 459–60.

49 GFK to JKH, March 8 and 28, 1930, GFK Papers, 23:10.

50 GFK Diary, January 19, 1930.

51 GFK to JKH, January 3 and April 28, 1931, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK, Memoirs, I, 34.

52 GFK interview, December 13, 1987, pp. 9–10.

53 GFK to Ferris, January 12, 1931, JEK Papers.

54 GFK Diary, May 30, 1931.

55 GFK to JKH, November 16, 1930, January 3, April 18 and 28, 1931, GFK Papers, 23:10.

56 GFK to State Department, July 29, 1931, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/99.

FOUR ? MARRIAGE—AND MOSCOW: 1931–1933

1 ASK telegram to GFK, August 5, 1931, JEK Papers; GFK Diary, included in entry for May 7, 1932; GFK to JKH, no date, GFK Papers, 23:10. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 37.

2 ASK to GFK, three undated letters, JEK Papers.