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When he was called on for a toast, U.S. Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen raised his glass to "justice." Soon afterward Deputy Defense Minister Georgy Zhukov, the only Red army marshal never invited by the party leaders to lead the Red army parade, was asked for a toast. He announced that he would go along with Bohlen's toast. "What's the matter, Zhukov?" taunted Partyman Mikoyan, "can't you think up a toast of your own?" The marshal glared at Policeman Beria's friend. "I repeat," he said, "I wish to support the toast to justice...
From Moscow came news that Mrs. Charles E. Bohlen, wife of the U.S. Ambassador to Russia, had taken two other ladies of the American embassy in tow and dropped in for tea with Mrs. Vyacheslav M. Molotov, wife of the Soviet Union's teetering (see INTERNATIONAL) Foreign Minister...
...first six months of 1953 was a period to warm the cockles of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy's heart. He bounced from headline to headline, denouncing the use of Communist books in U.S.-sponsored overseas libraries, challenging with cloakroom innuendo the appointment of Charles Bohlen as ambassador to Russia, engaging in a transatlantic cat fight with Britain's Clement Attlee. But with the adjournment of Congress, McCarthy had to scramble to keep his name in the big black type. He was beginning to sag as a topic of conversation when Harry Truman came to his aid by injecting...
...hostile. The day after the President spoke in the U.N. General Assembly, Moscow radio said: "Eisenhower threatened atomic war." Then the men in the Kremlin apparently decided to reconsider. Three days later Moscow radio announced that Foreign Minister Molotov had already assured U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen that Russia will give "serious attention" to the U.S. plan...
Since prewar days, U.S. and British diplomats in Moscow have been trailed by bodyguards supplied by the Russian authorities "for protection." Last week U.S. Ambassador Charles E. Bohlen, flying back to Moscow after a visit to Washington, was surprised to find no bodyguard to greet him at the airport and himself free for the first time to move about without escort. This is the kind of change meant to be regarded as a "slight improvement in relations...