Some observers ( including George Kennan ) believed that the Japanese treaty led Stalin to approve a plan to invade U. S .- supported South Korea on June 25, 1950.

Though the article was signed pseudonymously by " X ," it was well known at the time that the true author was George F. Kennan, the deputy chief of mission of the United States to the Soviet Union from 1944 to 1946, under ambassador W. Averell Harriman.

* 1845 – George Kennan, American explorer ( d. 1924 )

* 1904 – George F. Kennan, American historian and diplomat ( d. 2005 )

The Plan was largely the creation of State Department officials, especially William L. Clayton and George F. Kennan.

The Finnish and Baltic invasions began a deterioration of relations between the Soviets and Germany .< ref > Kennan, George.

* Kennan, George.

** George F. Kennan, American diplomat ( d. 2005 )

* 1957: Russia Leaves the War: Soviet-American Relations, 1917 – 1920 by George F. Kennan

George F. Kennan, the influential U. S. diplomat, called The Gulag Archipelago, " the most powerful single indictment of a political regime ever to be levied in modern times.

Cutler and NSC Executive Secretary James Lay testified in support of the effectiveness of the system, but their testimony was offset by that of former Truman administration officials such as George Kennan, Paul Nitze, and Robert Lovett.

Later that year, diplomat George Kennan wrote an article in Foreign Affairs magazine that became known as the " X Article ", which first articulated the policy of containment, arguing that the further spread of Communism to countries outside a " buffer zone " around the USSR, even if it happened via democratic elections, was unacceptable and a threat to U. S. national security.

In this position he built a working framework for containment, first formulated by George Kennan, who served as the head of Acheson's Policy Planning Staff.

American Visions of Europe: Franklin D. Roosevelt, George F. Kennan, and Dean G. Acheson.

The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made ( 1997 ) 864pp ; covers Acheson and colleagues Charles E. Bohlen, W. Averell Harriman, George Kennan, Robert Lovett, and John J. McCloy ; excerpt and text search

Galbraith favored détente with the Soviet Union, and was out of step with the Containment policy then being developed by George Kennan and the State Department's policymakers.

* 1968: Memoirs by George Frost Kennan

* 2012: George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis

It shifted American foreign policy toward the Soviet Union from détente ( a relaxation of tension ) to a policy of containment of Soviet expansion as advocated by diplomat George Kennan.

The Reagan Doctrine was especially significant because it represented a substantial shift in the post – World War II foreign policy of the U. S. Prior to the Reagan Doctrine, U. S. foreign policy in the Cold War was rooted in " containment ," as originally defined by George F. Kennan, John Foster Dulles, and other post – World War II U. S. foreign policy experts.

The study group included such luminaries as Dwight Eisenhower, Allen Dulles, Richard M. Bissell, Jr. and George Kennan.

* George F. Kennan, Russia

George F. Kennan published his doctrine of containment in the July 1947 issue of Foreign Affairs.

Other famous scholars who have worked at the institute include Alan Turing, Paul Dirac, Edward Witten, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Freeman Dyson, Julian Bigelow, Erwin Panofsky, Homer A. Thompson, George Kennan, Hermann Weyl, Stephen Smale, Atle Selberg, Noam Chomsky, Clifford Geertz, Paul Erdős, Michael Atiyah, Erich Auerbach, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Michael Walzer, Andrew Wiles, Stephen Wolfram, and Eric Maskin.

In her letter to John Brown, `` E. B. '', the Quakeress from Newport, had suggested that the American people owed more honor to John Brown for seeking to free the slaves than they did to George Washington.

George Simon, exec director of Danny Thomas A. L. S. A. C. ( Aiding Leukemia Stricken American Children ) fund raising group, filled me in on the low-down phonies who are using phones to solicit funds for Danny's St. Jude hospital in Memphis.

A theme from George Gershwin's orchestral composition An American in Paris

An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.

The radio broadcast of the September 8, 1937 Hollywood Bowl George Gershwin Memorial Concert, in which An American in Paris, also conducted by Shilkret, was second on the program, was recorded and was released in 1998 in a two-CD set.

* 1796 – George N. Briggs, American politician, 19th Governor of Massachusetts ( d. 1861 )

* 1889 – George Kenney, American general ( d. 1977 )

* 1942 – George Jung, American convicted drug smuggler

* 1872 – George E. Stewart, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient ( d. 1946 )

* 1913 – George Van Eps, American guitarist ( d. 1998 )

* 1937 – George " The Animal " Steele, American wrestler

* 1894 – George Meany, American labor leader ( d. 1980 )

* 1942 – Barbara George, American singer-songwriter ( d. 2006 )

* 1975 – George Stults, American actor

* 1925 – George Wetherill, American physicist ( d. 2006 )

* 1939 – George Hamilton, American actor

* 1910 – George Cisar, American baseball player ( d. 2010 )

* 1919 – George Wallace, American politician, 45th Governor of Alabama ( d. 1998 )

* 1775 – American Revolutionary War: King George III delivers his Proclamation of Rebellion to the Court of St. James's stating that the American colonies have proceeded to a state of open and avowed rebellion.

* 1922 – George Kell, American baseball player ( d. 2009 )

* 1878 – George Whipple, American physician and pathologist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1976 )

* 1954 – George Church, American biologist