Word: bohlen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Critics assailed Yalta as a sellout. Even George Kennan, then a top State Department official, denounced the West's refusal "to name any limit for Russian expansion and Russian responsibilities." But Charles Bohlen, assistant to the Secretary of State and one of the designers of the deal, called such criticism naive. Neither Britain nor the U.S. had any way to coerce Stalin, he argued, and "either our pals intend to limit themselves or they...
...just 625,000 today, and the rate of killing has been accelerating in recent years because many of the older, bigger-tusked animals have already been destroyed. "The poachers now must kill three times as many elephants to get the same quantity of * ivory," explains Curtis Bohlen, senior vice president of the World Wildlife Fund...
...move came just four days after a consortium of conservation groups, including the World Wildlife Fund and Wildlife Conservation International, called for that kind of action, and it made the U.S. the first nation to forbid imports of both raw and finished ivory. The ban, says Bohlen, "sends a very clear message to the ivory poachers that the game is over...
...schools, chatted at the same Georgetown dinner parties and cozily made American foreign policy for decades. Devoted to serving their country, pragmatists rather than ideologues, internationalists with an instinct for the center, they raised nonpartisanship in diplomacy to an art form. Their names: Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, George Kennan, Robert Lovett and John McCloy...
...warn Japan about the atom bomb, for example, was made without a full discussion of the consequences. McCloy, then Assistant Secretary of War, shaped a vague "declaration" to Japan that was agreeable to other U.S. officials but that did nothing to avert the use of the Bomb. Bohlen, a career man in the Foreign Service, was instrumental in getting the views of his lifelong friend and fellow Ambassador to Moscow George Kennan accepted in Washington. "A curious blend of arrogance and insecurity, haughtiness and self-pity" is how Isaacson and Thomas describe Kennan. Yet they have no doubts about...