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...Without sounding out congressional sentiment, the President nominated Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, a top-ranking Foreign Service careerist, to be U.S. Ambassador to Moscow. Bad timing and bad staff work on the Bohlen case forced Dulles and Eisenhower to make a major effort to get the Bohlen nomination through (see below...
Charles E. Bohlen '27, the President's choice for Ambassador to Russia, would be the logical man for the job in either a Republican or Democratic administration. A career diplomat, with years of training in Soviet affairs and the Russian language, he surpasses in qualifications for the post every other man in the State Department, with the possible exception of George Kennon. For this reason, it is unusual that his choice has any opposition...
...even after the Foreign Relations Committee approved him without dissent, a number of Senators, led by Senator McCarthy, are sharpening their axes today to destroy Bohlen's reputation on the floor of the Senate. Their case is not one of disloyalty or incompetency; they are declaring guilt by proximity...
...Bohlen, it seems, was at Yalta interpreting Roosevelt's English into Russian and Stalin's Russian into English. This, say the Senators, makes Bohlen partially responsible for what they feel the biggest sellout since Munich. Perhaps Bohlen deliberately misinterpreted conversations to bring on the Great Tragedy. Anyway, they say he is a poor security risk, and are bucking their President and their party to stop...
Some things are more important than rewriting history for the benefit of future political campaigns. One of them is sending ambassadors to vital points of the world with the confidence of the country in back of them. It is unfortunate for the country that the little men attacking Bohlen on the floor of the Senate today do not realize this...