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PPS/23: Review of Current Trends in U.S. Foreign Policy
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"Russil Wvong /
History, politics, and the future /
George F. Kennan /
PPS/23
PPS/23: Review of Current Trends in U.S. Foreign Policy
Published in Foreign Relations of the United States ,
1948, Volume I, pp. 509-529. Transcribed by Russil Wvong.
One of “two papers of a general interpretive nature relating to
the world situation and the problems it presented for American policy”
written by George Kennan for Secretary of State George Marshall,
the other being PPS/13 .
The source of a misleading quotation
which often appears in radical literature.
Policy Planning Staff Files 1
Memorandum by the Director of the Policy Planning Staff
(Kennan) 2 to the
Secretary of State and the Under Secretary of State (Lovett)
TOP SECRET
PPS/23
[Washington,] February 24, 1948.
When Mr. Acheson 3 first
spoke to me about the Planning Staff, he said that he thought its most
important function would be to try to trace the lines of development
of our foreign policy as they emerged from our actions in the past,
and to project them into the future, so that we could see where we
were going.
During the first months of the operation of the Staff, I hesitated
to undertake any such effort, because I did not feel that any of us
had a broad enough view of the problems involved to lend real value to
our estimate.
I have now made an effort toward a general view of the main
problems of our foreign policy, and I enclose it as a Staff paper. It
is far from comprehensive and doubtless contains many defects; but it
is a first step toward the unified concept of foreign policy which I
hope this Staff can some day help to evolve.
The paper is submitted merely for information, and does not call
for approval. I made no effort to clear it around the Department,
since this would have changed its whole character. For this reason, I
feel that if any of the views expressed should be made the basis for
action in the D"
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