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...Damoclean sword of intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Russian homeland. There thus seemed little real need for such a massive effort in Cuba. Yet, as Kennedy pondered and as he talked long and earnestly with his top Kremlinologists-among them former U.S. Ambassadors to Moscow Llewellyn Thompson and Charles Bohlen-some of the answers began to emerge. More and more in Kennedy's mind, the Cuban crisis became linked with impending crisis in Berlin-and with an all-out Khrushchev effort to upset the entire power balance of the cold...
...rapidly evolving community of European nations and the stubborn aspirations of Charles de Gaulle. Last week, as his choice to succeed retiring Ambassador James A. Gavin in Paris, President Kennedy chose a handsome, seasoned career diplomat who has already made his name as a Russian expert: Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, 57, Ambassador to Moscow from...
During his 33-year career, Bohlen has shown a tough turn of mind, an eagerness to accept responsibility and a knack for survival. He mastered Russian in his 20s, served as Franklin Roosevelt's interpreter during the President's long, private talks with Stalin at Teheran and Yalta, and later performed the same duty for Harry Truman at Potsdam. In 1953, when President Eisenhower nominated him Ambassador to Moscow, Bohlen was attacked by Joe McCarthy, who charged that he had helped shape the controversial Yalta agreements. Although Bohlen insisted that he had acted only as an interpreter...
...Russia is not a mystery," Bohlen has often said. "It's a secret." To discover the secret, Bohlen kept up a running dialogue with Russian leaders that alternated between breezy quips and heated debates. But a split gradually opened between Bohlen and John Foster Dulles; the Secretary of State paid little heed to his ambassador's advice about the Russians. In 1957, against Bohlen's wishes, President Dwight Eisenhower pulled him out of Moscow and made him Ambassador to the Philippines. There, though he started from scratch, Bohlen did a typically professional job, helped maintain U.S. -Philippine...
...Bohlen was brought back to Washington as a top adviser to Secretary of State Christian Herter, who had succeeded Dulles. Recently he has been counseling Secretary of State Dean Rusk on U.S.-Soviet affairs. To his new post he takes a knowledge of the language (his French is even better than his Russian; he has studied it since childhood) and a slight acquaintance with De Gaulle (they met during Bohlen's 1949-51 stint as second man in the Paris embassy). This time his appointment is expected to clear the Senate with no fuss...