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Home from Russia this week flew the U.S.'s Ambassador to Moscow, Charles Eustis Bohlen, to help guide State Department tacticians in fashioning policies to match the changing offensives of the Communist world. The details would require careful study, for the cold war has taken a turn that has boosted the stock of neutralists, encouraged U.S.-baiters in the Western Alliance (see FOREIGN NEWS), and set in motion powerful new anticolonial forces. But the job of fashioning counterplans would be hopeless if the U.S. first failed to take stock of its own basic role and mission in the world...
Observers on the spot, like Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, and Soviet experts in this country, agree that this remarkable self-confidence was the real hallmark of the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party...
...Dirty Business. Except for a few fleeting glimpses (at a Moscow garden party last August, he laughed and chatted with U.S. Ambassador Bohlen's 15-year-old daughter Avis), it was the outside world's first hard look at Serov. But his career, pieced together from the reports of hundreds of Soviet refugees, had long been studied by Western intelligence agencies. In the words of refugee Lieut. Colonel Grigory Burlitsky, a former coworker, Serov at 50 is "one of the most ruthless and opportunistic swine in the whole dirty business." The "dirty business": the liquidation of opposition...
...Premier Georgy Malenkov now acted as a glorified cruise director. He directed Admiral Sergei Gorshkov to pilot British Chargé d'Affaires C. C. Parrott and his wife around the lake in a motorboat. The admiral almost ran down a rowboat in which Mikoyan was rowing Mrs. Bohlen. ("Mikoyan is an old sailor, and he is reliable in all respects," Khrushchev had assured Mrs. Bohlen.) U.S. Ambassador Bohlen then challenged Mikoyan to a rowing race, and when Bohlen won, Bulganin and other Soviet officials hooted Mikoyan...
...case there should be any doubt in diplomatic minds about the reason for the frolicsome celebration, from time to time Soviet leaders dropped loaded remarks about their happiness over the way the new atmosphere was working out. "What a day!" exclaimed U.S. Ambassador Bohlen, as he drove home with his wife and daughter, and indeed it had been...