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Letter from George Kennan to Secretary of State Dean Acheson

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1070-a original retained in prerate papers ISZ DEPARTMENT OF STATE and THE COUNSELOR over file? SERVICE'* Dec. 4, 1950. Xeso inv E Read in 930 Dear Mr. lucetary: meeting Dec 6. In the official level I have been asked To give advice only on the particular problem of Soviet reaction to various possible approaches. But there is one they I should like to say in continuation of our discussion of yesterday evening. In international, as in private, life, what counts most is not really what happens to some one but how he bears what happens to him. For this reason almost everything depends from here on out on the manner in which americans bear what we is unquestionally