8 GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” p. 66, GFK Papers, 240:2; R. Walton Moore to Bullitt, March 19, 1936, Bullitt Papers, T12:15. The information on embassy productivity is in the Huddle inspection report, April 17, 1937.
9 GFK to JKH, December 6, 1936, GFK Papers, 23:10; ASK to JKH, January 2, 1937, JEK Papers; Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, pp. 132, 135.
10 ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 6; GFK to JKH, September 8, 1936, GFK Papers, 23:10; GFK Diary, May 30, 1937.
11 GFK to JKH, December 6, 1936, GFK Papers, 23:10; also ASK interview, December 14, 1987, p. 19.
12 Henderson, Question of Trust, p. 414; Davies, Mission to Moscow, p. xviii; GFK, Memoirs, I, 82. See also, on Davies’s background, MacLean, Joseph E. Davies, pp. 7–22.
13 Henderson interview, p. 3; Huddle inspection report, April 17, 1937.
14 GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” p. 67, GFK Papers, 240:2; GFK to JKH, February 17, 1937, ibid., 23:10; ASK to JKH, March 3, 1937, JEK Papers; GFK undated memoir, “Washington 1937–1938,” GFK Papers, 240:3; GFK to Eugene Hotchkiss, undated but March 1937, ibid., 23:10.
15 ASK interview, September 8, 1983, p. 4; Davies to GFK, February 2, 1937, Davies Papers, Box 3; GFK, Memoirs, I, 82–83; Davies to State Department, February 17 and 18, 1937, DSR-DF 1930–39, 861.00/ 11675–76; Kelley to Hull, March 13, 1937, ibid., 861.00/11676. Davies’s February 18 dispatch forwarded Kennan’s report, “The Trial of Radek and Others,” dated February 13, 1937, subsequently published in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 362–69. See also MacLean, Joseph E. Davies, pp. 28–30.
16 GFK to Peter S. Bridges, September 20, 1963, GFK Papers, 57. See also GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 71–72, ibid., 240:2; Thayer, Bears in the Caviar, pp. 95–96; MacLean, Joseph E. Davies, p. 40; and, for official reports, Henderson to State Department, May 14 and August 10, 1937, in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, pp. 441–42, 445–46.
17 Davies to Kelley, February 10, 1937, Davies Papers, Box 3.
18 GFK to JKH, December 6, 1936, and March 31, 1937, GFK Papers, 23:10.
19 GFK 1938 memoir “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 68–70, ibid., 240:2; GFK, Memoirs, I, 85; Bullitt to R. Walton Moore, June 15, 1937, Bullitt Papers, T12:16. For another version of the library story, see Bohlen, Witness to History, p. 41.
20 Moore to Bullitt, June 26, 1937, Bullitt Papers, T12:16; GFK, Memoirs, I, 84–85; also MacLean, Joseph E. Davies, pp. 37–38.
21 GFK, Memoirs, I, 82–83; GFK to Rebecca Matlock, October 29, 1987, GFK Papers, 27:18; GFK 1938 memoir “Fair Day Adieu,” p. 70, ibid., 240:2.
22 ASK to JKH, June 24 and July 28, 1937, JEK Papers; Hull to GFK, August 13, 1937, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/246.
23 Bullitt to Moore, June 15, 1937, Bullitt Papers, T12:16; Henderson to Bullitt, September 3, 1937, ibid., 22: 10; GFK to JKH, September 14, 1937, GFK Papers, 22:10; GFK to Hull, August 16, 1937, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/248. See also Henderson, Question of Trust, p. 397.
24 GFK, Memoirs, I, 85; GFK Diary, October 17, 24, 25, 1937, and February 11, 1938; GFK undated memoir, “Washington 1937–1938,” GFK Papers, 240:3.
25 GFK to JKH, November 3, 1937, ibid., 23:10; ASK to JKH, October 19 and December 20, 1937, JEK Papers; GFK to JKH, December 26, 1937, and February 8, 1938, GFK Papers, 23:10.
26 GFK undated memoir, “Washington 1937–1938,” pp. 4, 15, GFK Papers, 240:3; GFK memorandum, “The Position of an American Ambassador in Moscow,” November 24, 1937, in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, p. 446; GFK, Memoirs, I, 85–86; GFK and Edward Page, Jr., memorandum, “Comments on the Memorandum of Oral Conversation Left by the Soviet Ambassador,” July 19, 1938, in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933–1939, p. 658; GFK memorandum, December 23, 1937, DSR-DF 1930–39, 711.61/628.
27 GFK lecture, “Russia,” delivered at the Foreign Service School, May 20, 1938, GFK Papers, 298:1.
28 Troyanovsky to Stalin (from Washington), June 20, 1938, and a second undated report (from Moscow), Presidential Archive of the Russian Federation, Fond 3, Opis 66, Delo 362, ll. 140–211, translation by Jeffrey Mankoff. The Davies dispatch is in FRUS: The Soviet Union, 1933–39, pp. 542–51.
29 “Memoires of Dr. Frieda Por,” enclosed in a letter to GFK and ASK, June 12, 1977, GFK Papers, 39:5; ASK to Frieda Por (in German), July 25, 1938, JEK Papers. See also, on the Frieda Por emigration, GFK interview, December 13, 1987, pp. 11–12; and ASK to GFK, undated but summer 1938, JEK Papers.
30 GFK undated memoir, “Washington 1937–1938,” pp. 17–19, GFK Papers, 240:3. GFK, Memoirs, I, 75–76, misdates this trip as 1936.
31 GFK, Sketches from a Life, pp. 36–44; also GFK undated memoir, “Washington 1937–1938,” GFK Papers, 240:3.
32 GFK, “The Sources of Soviet Conduct,” Foreign Affairs 25 (July 1947), 582.
33 GFK, “The Prerequisites: Notes on the Problems of the United States in 1938,” and “II. Government,” GFK Papers, 240:4.
34 Mayers, George Kennan and the Dilemmas of U.S. Foreign Policy, p. 338n; GFK interview, January 30, 1991, p. 13. Wright, “George F. Kennan, Scholar-Diplomat,” pp. 133–34, catalogs the political incorrectness with succinct precision.
35 Isaacson and Thomas, Wise Men, p. 172.
36 See, for example, GFK, Around the Cragged Hill, pp. 232–49.
37 GFK 1938 memoir, “Fair Day Adieu,” pp. 29–31, GFK Papers, 240:2. See also, on the global significance of the New Deal, Hamby, For the Survival of Democracy.
38 GFK undated memoir, “Washington 1937–1938,” p. 9, ibid., 240:3.
39 Ibid., pp. 1–2.
40 Bohlen interview by Wright, September 29, 1970. I have edited this passage for clarity.
41 GFK undated memoir, “Washington 1937–1938,” pp. 31–33, GFK Papers, Box 19R.
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1 GFK to Bullitt, August 15, 1938, Bullitt Papers, 4:12. See also GFK, Memoirs, I, 86.
2 GFK undated memoir, “Prague—Munich to Occupation, 1938–1939,” pp. 1–3, GFK Papers, 240:3. The Washington Post clippings, dated September 15, 1938, are in the JEK Papers.
3 GFK undated memoir, “Prague—Munich to Occupation, 1938–1939,” pp. 3–4, GFK Papers, 240:3; State Department radiogram, September 24, 1938, DSR-DF 1930–39, 123K36/272, National Archives.
4 GFK undated memoir, “Prague—Munich to Occupation, 1938–1939,” pp. 4–6, GFK Papers, 240:3.
5 Ibid., pp. 7–9.
6 GFK to Frieda Por (in German), October 15, 1938, JEK Papers; GFK personal notes, October 1938, in GFK, From Prague After Munich, pp. 3–4; GFK Diary, October 2, 1938.
7 GFK, Memoirs, I, 90–92; GFK Diary, October 13, 1938. Gellhorn drew on her experiences in her first novel, A Stricken Field. There is an encounter with an apparently insensitive diplomat—although she makes him British—on pp. 162–65.