Word: bohlen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lived for 81 years, went 500 veteran workers one morning last week to hear a report on Krupp's affairs. Never before had any Krupp ever condescended to report to his employees; never before had any worker been invited to the "House on the Hill." Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 46, great-grandson of Founder Friedrich Krupp, himself gave his workers the good news. Despite Allied restrictions, Krupp grossed $238 million last year (17.5% from exports), turned its first "satisfactory" postwar profit...
...Eden, Harriman, Bohlen and I remained to discuss the . . . conversation," recorded Secretary of State Edward Stettinius. "We were in agreement that the trend at the moment seemed to be more toward a three-power alliance than anything else. No progress . . . had yet been made . . . toward building a world organization based on recognition of the sovereign rights of all nations...
Foreground. Whether or not this clear-eyed British counsel reached his ears or understanding, Roosevelt ignored it. Bohlen's minutes show the President ready to give Stalin just what he wanted...
...Charles E. Bohlen, assistant to the Secretary of State (now Ambassador to the U.S.S.R.), acted both as interpreter for President Roosevelt and as narrator of the Big Three meetings. His smooth narrative is regarded by the State Department as "the nearest approach to an official American record of the Yalta Conference." 2) H. Freeman Matthews, director of the State Department's Office of European Affairs (now Ambassador to The Netherlands), put much conference dialogue in direct quotations. 3) Alger Hiss, who went to Yalta as U.S. adviser on United Nations matters, took sketchy, sometimes inaccurate longhand notes and never...
...once "protested vigorously" through Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen that Father Bissonnette's expulsion was a violation of the 1933 agreement and was "in no way related to cases of temporary visits" like that of Metropolitan Boris. In Moscow Father Bissonnette sadly said a last Mass in his apartment for 20-odd members of his flock. He advised them to turn for spiritual guidance to the Russian priest of the Church of St. Louis, Moscow's only Roman Catholic Church. Said Father Bissonnette: "If you do not speak Russian or Polish and have trouble with the language, just...