Upon graduation from Princeton, he entered the foreign service, where he spent several years in Geneva, Berlin, Tallinn, Riga, and other "listening posts" around the Soviet Union, with which the US had no diplomatic relations at the time. He was released from a brief Nazi internment in 1942, and it was from Moscow in 1946 that he sent the famous "Long Telegram," outlining his beliefs. FTP, what man later published that missive in Foreign Affairs magazine for July 1947, signing his suggestions for a policy of Soviet containment simply "X."
Upon graduation from Princeton, he entered the foreign service, where he spent several years in Geneva, Berlin, Tallinn, Riga, and other "listening posts" around the Soviet Union, with which the US had no diplomatic relations at the time. He was released from a brief Nazi internment in 1942, and it was from Moscow in 1946 that he sent the famous "Long Telegram," outlining his beliefs. FTP, what man later published that missive in Foreign Affairs magazine for July 1947, signing his suggestions for a policy of Soviet containment simply "X."
Upon graduation from Princeton, he entered the foreign service, where he spent several years in Geneva, Berlin, Tallinn, Riga, and other "listening posts" around the Soviet Union, with which the US had no diplomatic relations at the time.
George Frost {Kennan}