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...gave Chip Bohlen his unqualified support (see below). He again gently reproved the authors of the Bricker treaty limiting amendment to the Constitution: while he is sure the Senators are patriotically well-intentioned, the President said, the amendment would certainly restrict the President's flexibility in the conduct of foreign relations. The Korean ammunition supply, he said, is equal to the existing military situation there. And he gave the Truman Administration one of his rare slaps, deplored the $709,000 terminal leave collected by the Fair Deal's top brass; he would never allow his own officials...
...Senators strode into a State Department office, seated themselves at a table and began poring over a 30-page document. Ohio's Robert A. Taft and Alabama's John Sparkman had come over from Capitol Hill to go through the FBI report on Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, nominee for Ambassador to Russia. Both Taft and Sparkman were already satisfied with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles' judgment that Bohlen was a good security risk, but the hue & cry raised by Bohlen's opponents about reports of his past association with "dissolute persons" (TIME, March...
...public derogatory material about individuals which appears unchecked in FBI files. But if the material in these files is to be leaked to Senators by employees of the executive departments, it will become the subject of semi-public debate. Such debate can be more harmful to a man in Bohlen's position than an open accusation...
Some observers saw the Bohlen case as the beginning of an all-out fight between McCarthy and Eisenhower. This view was premature, at least. McCarthy was needling, not charging in, and Eisenhower, though supporting Bohlen, had launched no counterattack on McCarthy...
...What the Bohlen uproar proved was that McCarthy would continue to bury serious public questions in a mass of personal innuendo unless the executive department improved its timing, and enforced some discipline on its own employees, who run to Senators with rumors and half-baked reports. The serious question buried in the Bohlen case was whether a man who defends the Yalta-Potsdam record, as Bohlen does, is the right man to send to Moscow in a period when the old policies are supposed to be changed...