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George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, will spend five weeks at the College this spring as a visiting lecturer in History. He will deliver a dozen lectures on the history of Soviet diplomacy under Stalin.
"They will not be V.I.P. lectures where you talk on the fate of the world," Kennan said yesterday from Princeton's Institute for Advanced Studies, where he is a Permanent Professor. Instead, he plans a "straight academic series," and hopes also to participate in some graduate seminars, perhaps at the Center for International Affairs.
During his visit to the College--for a week before and a month after spring vacation--Kennan will live in one of the Houses. Although Kennan said yesterday that he hoped to stay at several Houses "in rotation," Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History Department, said this would be difficult as "We couldn't very well shuttle him around every three days." Kennan said he is "very interested in meeting undergraduates," and Gilmore promised yesterday that various Houses will be able to have Kennan for dinner and evening meetings.
Author of the post-war policy of "containment," Kennan more recently advanced proposals for a "disengagement" on the continent. Since 1950 he has taught at the Institute for Advanced Study, except for his Ambassadorship in 1952.
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