Word: bohlen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...resignation of Virginia's former Governor John S. Battle from the Civil Rights Commission, started the tough job of finding another Southerner to serve in Battle's place. ¶Nominated John D. Hickerson, able U.S. Ambassador to Finland since 1955, to succeed Washington-bound Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Manila...
Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen capped his two-year tour of duty in Manila by concluding a base agreement that satisfied both Filipino pride and U.S. security requirements...
...agreement, long denounced as unfair by Filipinos, the U.S. had acquired gg-year leases on 23 Philippine bases, and the U.S. Navy was running the town of Olongapo (pop. 60,000) almost like a unit of its own Pacific Fleet (TIME, July 20). Under the new terms negotiated by Bohlen and Filipino Foreign Secretary Felixberto Serrano, the U.S. has now agreed...
...naval and air bases-Subic Bay, Sangley Point Naval Air Station, Clark Field and Camp John Hay-as well as three lesser installations. Philippine President Carlos Garcia, who clearly intends to point with pride to the base agreement in the forthcoming Philippine off-year elections, was quick to praise Bohlen's statesmanship and to declare that "less capable hands" might have imperiled U.S.-Philippine friendship. But Garcia's warmth did not necessarily augur an easy time for Bohlen's prospective successor, John D. Hickerson, now U.S. Ambassador to Finland. Still left for Hickerson to settle: the long...
...Moscow, Bohlen now and then felt it was his expert's prerogative to differ sharply with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, who once complained that there were two State Departments-his own and Bohlen's. As soon as Bohlen's standard four-year tour was up in 1957, Dulles took him out of Moscow and sent him to Manila. After Dulles' death, top State Department careermen urged Secretary of State Christian A. Herter to bring Chip Bohlen back into his special field of U.S.-Soviet relations. This week the State Department announced that Expert Bohlen...