August 1956 Issue [Article] Overdue changes in our foreign policy Adjust Share by George Frost Kennan, This article is only available as a PDF to subscribers. Download PDF Tags 1953-1961 1953-1975 1953-1985 20th century Anti-imperialist movements Cold War Communism Foreign relations History Politics and government Race relations Soviet Union United States More from George Frost Kennan A Model Married Man From a 1933 diary entry by George Kennan (1904–2005), with the heading “January, Riga.” Kennan was working for the State Department at the time, in a diplomatic post in Latvia.… The rules of engagement A brief history The terms of debate Adjust Share