“We have about 50% of the world's wealth but only 6.3% of its population... Our real task in the coming period is to devise a pattern of relationships which will permit us to maintain this position of disparity.”

About George F. Kennan

Diplomat • American

George Frost Kennan was an American diplomat and historian best known as an advocate of the policy of containment of Soviet expansion during the Cold War. He anonymously authored the influential "X Article" in Foreign...