Word: bohlen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington last month checked on the acceptability of Charles E. Bohlen as U.S. Ambassador to replace George F. Kennan, declared unacceptable by the Russians. The Russian reply: Bohlen is persona grata. Then, where the Administration did not expect it, trouble arose...
Some Senate Republicans, studying Bohlen's record, had doubts. Handsome, Harvard-bred "Chip" Bohlen has made Russia his special field ever since he entered the Foreign Service in 1929. State assigned him to study Russian, sent him to Moscow (along with Kennan) in the '30s. Russia fascinated Bohlen; he even became an expert balalaika player. By 1944 he was chief of Eastern European Affairs (Russia, Poland, the Baltic countries) in Washington. At Teheran and Yalta, Bohlen served as interpreter and aide for Franklin Roosevelt. He sat with F.D.R. and Averell Harriman, facing Stalin, Molotov and their interpreter, Pavlov...
...Charles E. Bohlen, Russian-speaking State Department counselor, career diplomat, and veteran of embassy service in Moscow, to be Ambassador to the U.S.S.R...
Charles E. Bohlen '27, member of the Board of Overseers has been declared acceptable by the Kremlin as the next United States Ambassador to the Soviet Union...
...Bohlen is regarded, with George F. Kennan whom he succeeds as ambassador, as the nation's foremost authority on Russia, and as the American who knows Stalin best. He served as interpreter for President Roosevelt and President Truman...