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34 Ibid., March 24, 1961. Strunsky’s poem is in GFK Papers, 46:12.

35 GFK Desk Calendar, April 19, 1961; GFK interview by Fischer, p. 55.

36 GFK undated diary fragment, 1961; GFK, Memoirs, II, 269. The Kennans had indeed sailed on the same day, April 24, 1952, but George had arrived in Moscow on May 6.

37 GFK to Grace and Joan Kennan, May 17, 1961, GFK Papers, 325:1.

38 GFK, Memoirs, II, 274–75; Hessman interview, pp. 16, 19.

39 GFK memorandum of conversation with Tito, July 17, 1961, in FRUS 1961–63, XVI, 191–96. See also GFK’s dispatches of June 8, 1961, and July 31, 1961, ibid., pp. 189–90, 196–99.

40 GFK to McGhee, April 20, 1961, GFK Papers, 56.

41 “Kennedy Appeals on Captive Lands,” New York Times, July 15, 1961; GFK to Bundy, July 19, 1961, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 209A, Kennedy Library; Bundy to GFK, July 27, 1961, ibid.; GFK, Memoirs, II, 292–93.

42 GFK to Bundy, July 19, 1961, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 209A, Kennedy Library; Bundy to GFK, July 27, 1961, ibid.

43 GFK to ASK, July 20 and August 12, 1961, GFK Papers, 24:5; Rusk to GFK, July 28, 1961, DSR-DF 1960–63, Box 321, “123 Kennan” folder.

44 Schlesinger Diary, August 12, 1961, in Schlesinger, Journals, p. 128; Bundy to Kennedy, August 14, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, XIV, 331; White House Diary, August 15, 1961, Kennedy Library; Kennedy to Rusk, August 14, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, XIV, 332. See also Schlesinger, Thousand Days, p. 397; and Beschloss, Crisis Years, p. 275.

45 McGeorge Bundy interview, p. 2. See also Brinkley, Dean Acheson, pp. 148–53; and Trachtenberg, Constructed Peace, pp. 325–27.

46 GFK to Bundy, August 15, 1961, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 209A, Kennedy Library; GFK to Oppenheimer, September 21, 1961, Oppenheimer Papers, Box 43.

47 Rusk to GFK, August 14, 1961, DSR-DF 1960–63, 762.00/8-1461; GFK interview by Fischer, p. 120.

48 GFK to Rusk, August 31, 1961, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 211A, Kennedy Library.

49 GFK to Rusk, September 2, 4, 1961, ibid. Kennan’s translation of Yepishev’s memorandum, completed on September 5, reached the State Department on September 16 and was immediately forwarded to the White House.

50 GFK to Rusk, September 4, 1961, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 211A, Kennedy Library; Rusk to GFK, September 5, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, XXIV, 402.

51 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 122–23; GFK to Chester Bowles, September 22, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, XIV, 436–37.

52 Khrushchev to Kennedy, September 29, 1961, ibid., VI, 33–34.

53 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 122–23; memorandum, Harriman-Khrushchev conversation, June 23, 1959, in FRUS: 1958–60, X, 276; Schlesinger interview, p. 3. See also Bird, Color of Truth, pp. 211–12.

54 Schlesinger to Kennedy, August 3, 1961, NSF Country Files, Yugoslavia, Box 209A, Kennedy Library.

55 GFK to State Department, September 3, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 202; William P. Bundy interview, p. 6; GFK interview by Fischer, p. 66. For Tito’s assurances, see GFK’s dispatch of July 17, 1961, ibid.,192. Excerpts from Tito’s speech appeared in The New York Times, September 4, 1961.

56 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 53, 63, 71–72; GFK to State Department, September 15, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 206; Ball interview, October 12, 1987, p. 2; William P. Bundy interview, p. 7; Raymond E. Lisle to State Department, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 209; Kennedy to GFK, October 11, 1961, ibid., p. 211.

57 GFK to David Riesman, October 3, 1961, and to Hamilton Fish Armstrong, November 2, 1961, GFK Papers, 56; Paul Underwood, “Belgrade Impressed by Kennan, But Finds Him a Tough Envoy,” New York Times, January 5, 1962.

58 GFK to Oppenheimer, December 8, 1961, Oppenheimer Papers, Box 43, “Kennan” folder.

59 Lucius D. Battle to McGeorge Bundy, January 5, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library; National Security Action Memorandum 123, “Policy Toward Yugoslavia,” January 15, 1961, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 255–56; GFK to ASK, January 12, 1962, GFK Papers, 24:5.

60 Schlesinger Diary, March 31, 1962, in Schlesinger, Journals, pp. 149–50. For GFK’s brief, completed on January 15, 1962, see NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library. Rusk’s February 5 statement is in Department of State Bulletin 46 (February 26, 1962), 346–48. GFK’s report on the Yugoslav reaction, sent on February 14, is in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 257–58.

61 Komer to Bundy, May 25, 1962, NSF: Meetings and Memoranda: Staff Memoranda: Robert W. Komer, Box 322, Kennedy Library; Bundy to GFK, May 8, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, ibid.

62 Memorandum, Kennedy-Popovic conversation, May 29, 1962, in FRUS: 1961–63, XVI, 266–70.

63 GFK interview by Fischer, pp. 46–50; GFK to Kennedy and Rusk, May 31, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library.

64 GFK to Bundy, May 15, 1962, and Bundy to GFK, May 16, 1962, NSF Country Files: Yugoslavia, Box 210, Kennedy Library; GFK to ASK, May 31, 1962, GFK Papers, 24:5; GFK Desk Calendar, June 1, 1962.