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Died. Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 59, scion of Germany's Krupp empire (see WORLD BUSINESS...
...entrance hall of Villa Hiigel, the 200-room stone and steel mansion where Alfried Felix Alwyn Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach was born, 500 business, political and labor leaders gathered late last week for the funeral of the last sole ruler of the Ruhr's most powerful industrial dynasty. After the eulogies, a Krupp band struck up a miners' song called Glueck Auf (Good Fortune) and led the way out through a crowd to a hearse waiting in the rain. Behind followed ten Krupp miners bearing the oaken casket. Visibly in tears was Krupp's longtime confidant...
...play a key role in U.S. adjustment to the new European order. The career-man's experience gives him the capacity to deal with the complexities of transacting business between nations in a changing world. Answering the charge that Kennedy was annoyed by the sluggishness of the Foreign Service, Bohlen says "Kennedy wasn't impatient with the Foreign Service. The problem is that when people first come to government, they expect the Service to come up with black and white answers. They want them clear-cut and they want them fast. Things are just too complicated for that...
...predictably, Bohlen has the professional's skepticism about the effectiveness of the amateur diplomat, the politician. "Personal diplomacy is a relatively new thing," he reflects. "It only really started with the Second World War. Before that it was almost unheard of and when it did occur, usually catastrophic. It's still pretty dangerous. It's easy to lean back after dinner, sip some wine and say all right I'll give you this and you give me that' but later on you often regret...
...When Bohlen left Moscow in 1957, Khrushchev said to him, "We like competent ambassadors who know how to give correct appraisals to their government." Premier Bulganin was a little less reserved. "We do not understand why they are taking you from us," he complained...