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Papers. See also GFK, Memoirs, II, 119–20.

38 GFK to JKH, December 14, 1933, GFK Papers, 23:10.

39 GFK to JKH, January 6, 1934 [misdated 1933], ibid.; GFK, Memoirs, I, 59–60.

40 GFK to Bullitt, December 27, 1933, Bullitt Papers, 17:5; Bullitt to Roosevelt, January 1, 1934, in Bullitt, For the President, p. 65.

FIVE ? THE ORIGINS OF SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS, 1933–1936

1 GFK to ASK, December 29, 1933, JEK Papers.

2 Bullitt to State Department, December 16, 1933, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/141; Wilbur J. Carr to William Phillips, December 20, 1933, ibid., 124.61/54; Merrill to Carr, December 24, 1933, ibid., 124.611/53; Bullitt to Roosevelt, Phillips, and R. Walton Moore, December 24, 1933, ibid., 124.611/55; Phillips to Bullitt, December 27, 1933, ibid., 124.611/53.

3 ASK to GFK, January 2, 1934, JEK Papers; GFK Moscow Diary, January 15, 1934, DSR-DF1930–39, 124.616/113.

4 GFK, Memoirs, I, 59; GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 8–9, GFK Papers, 240:2; Bullitt to Roosevelt, January 1, 1934, in Bullitt, For the President, p. 69. The National still exists—in a different era—as Le Royal Meridien National. See also, for the history of Spaso House and the Mokhovaya, http://moscow.usembassygov/embassy/embassy.php?record_id=spaso.

5 Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, p. 75; GFK, Memoirs, I, 59.

6 GFK to Charles James, July 29, 1934, Douglas James Papers; Keith Merrill telephone conversation with GFK, January 9, 1934, DSR-DF 1930–39, 124.611/94 [this copy undated, but date determined from “Mr. Kennan’s Moscow Diary, 1934,” ibid., 124.616/113]; Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, p. 85; GFK to Rebecca Matlock, October 29, 1987, GFK Papers, 27:18; GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” p. 11, GFK Papers, 240:2. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 63–64; and Peter Bridges, “George Kennan Reminisces About Moscow in 1933–1937,” Diplomacy and Statecraft 17 (June 2006), 283–93.

7 Bullitt to Roosevelt, April 13, 1934, in Bullitt, For the President, p. 83.

8 Henderson, Question of Trust, pp. 262, 301–5; GFK, Memoirs, I, 61–63.

9 Henderson, Question of Trust, p. 303; ASK interviews, August 26, 1982, p. 7, and December 14, 1987, p. 4; Durbrow interview, September 24, 1982, p. 1. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 63–64; and Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, pp. 85– 86.

10 GFK to JKH, April 15 and May 7, 1934, JEK Papers.

11 GFK to JKH, May 19, 1934, ibid.

12 Bullitt to State Department, May 9, 1934, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/164. See also Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, pp. 85–86.

13 Robert F. Kelley memorandum, June 18, 1934, ibid.; GFK to JKH, June 24, 1934, JEK Papers.

14 GFK to Bullitt, July 6, 1934, Bullitt Papers, 19:8; GFK to Charles James, July 29, 1934, GFK Papers, 24:4.

15 JKH interview, p. 24; GFK to JKH, June 7, 1933, JEK Papers; GFK Diary, April 8, 1934.

16 GFK Diary, September 18, 1934, ibid.

17 GFK, “Runo—An Island Relic of Medieval Sweden,” Canadian Geographical Journal 11 (November 1935), 255–64. See also JKH to GFK, December 2, 1932, JEK Papers; and C. Ben Wright, “George F. Kennan, Scholar-Diplomat: 1926–1946,” Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Wisconsin, 1972, pp. 36–37.

18 GFK, Memoirs, I, 21, 49; Carr to Skinner, December 27, 1934, enclosing comments from Green, Kelley, and Edward C. Wynne, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/123.

19 Mrs. George Kennan to JKH, June 7 and 27, 1934, JEK Papers; GFK to JKH, July 1, 1934, ibid. For George A. Frost, see Travis, George Kennan and the American- Russian Relationship, pp. 112, 123–24.

20 GFK to JKH, August 1, 1934, JEK Papers.

21 Bullitt to GFK, July 20, 1934, Bullitt Papers, 19:8; Bullitt to R. Walton Moore, September 22, 1934, ibid., T12:13.

22 GFK to JKH, December 2, 1934, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” p. 17, ibid., 240:2.

23 ASK to JKH, November 9, 1934, JEK Papers; ASK interview, August 26, 1982, p. 8.

24 GFK Diary, September 3, 1934. Compare with GFK’s “Memorandum for the Minister,” August 19, 1932, enclosed in dispatch #650 from the Riga Legation to the Department of State, discussed in Chapter Four.

25 ASK to Louise Wheeler, October 12, 1934, and JKH, November 9, 1934, JEK Papers; KWK to JLG, January 9, 1983, JLG Papers; GFK to JKH, November 24, 1934, GFK Papers, 23:10; and KWK interview, pp. 11–13.

26 ASK to JKH, November 9, 1934, JEK Papers; GFK to JKH, December 2, 1934, GFK Papers, 23:10.

27 GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 22–23, GFK Papers, 240:2; ASK to JKH, December 21, 1934, JEK Papers; ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 5. See also Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, pp. 106–14.