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Notes from the Capital
Kennan, George | June 14, 1917 issue

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It is a pretty safe assertion that no one in the U.S. is so familiar as George Kennan with the Russian people and the conditions which surround them, he speaks their language, and his very name would mean more to all classes in the new democracy than any other, with the possible exception of ex-U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt's. Kennan, who is now seventy-two years old, began his interesting career at the age of six by learning the Morse telegraphic code. He was a well-grown lad during the Civil War, and, as he could not obtain the consent of his parents to his enlistment as a soldier, he attached himself to the war-time service of the Western Union.

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ROOSEVELT, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945; KENNAN, George, 1845-1924; CIVIL war; WESTERN Union Co.; SOLDIERS; RUSSIA
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