April 1984 Issue [Readings] A Plea for Diplomacy Download PDF Adjust Share by George Frost Kennan, Subscribe or log in to continue reading. Tags 1945-1989 1945-1991 Cold War Foreign 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