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...frosty in the early 1960s, however, the post has had some of the aspects of representing the U.S. in a hostile land. There were those who suspected Lyndon Johnson of shipping Sargent Shriver to the Siberian salt mines when the President picked him to succeed Career Diplomat Charles ("Chip") Bohlen in Paris. Bohlen made no secret of his sense of futility in dealing with the Elysee and the Quai d'Orsay. Undaunted, Shriver has brought to his new job the same inventiveness and dash with which he led the Peace Corps and the U.S. war on poverty...
Shriver's personality has helped in his new diplomacy, but he was also fortunate to arrive at the time of a new detente cordiale between the U.S. and France. Chip Bohlen, Shriver's predecessor, got along well enough with De Gaulle personally. But official relations began to thaw only after President Johnson restricted the bombing of North Viet Nam in March. De Gaulle hailed that as "an act of reason and political courage." The general was no less pleased with the choice of Paris as the site for the Washington-Hanoi negotiations. Then came France...
Charles E. Bohlen, LL.D., diplomat...
...fire that gutted the top three floors of the Time & Life building on Avenue Matignon in Paris took the lives of Public Relations Director Jean de Wissocq and Personnel Officer Françoise Hirou. Last week, in a moving ceremony presided over by Ambassador Charles Bohlen, 31 French businessmen presented the Paris staff with a Germaine Richier sculpture, symbolizing both their sympathy and their friendship...
Modifications in policy are as subtle for France's President Charles de Gaulle as the erosion of an Alp. Thus grandeur watchers saw a significance of sorts in his presence as host at an official farewell luncheon for U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, 63. While "France does not constantly approve" of American actions, De Gaulle said, getting in a few pro forma licks, the two nations could nevertheless still rely on their "capital of reciprocal interest, attraction and admiration." De Gaulle then intoned a toast to Bohlen, who is returning to Washington as Deputy Under Secretary of State...