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...brothers gather their gossip and opinion by a busy round of telephoning, lunching and buttonholing sources. Then they meet to decide who writes the next column, or whether they should do it jointly. Their contacts are largely second-level Government men like Harvardman Charles ("Chip") Bohlen and ECA's Dick Bissell, an old Grottie of Joe's class. The Alsops think press conferences a waste of time, go to Harry Truman's only a couple of times a year, just "to see what the President looks like...
...wanted and had to maintain Krupp, in spite of all opposition, as an armament plant for the future, even if in camouflaged form." In these words, in 1941, Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach told how his giant munitions trust had helped arm the Nazis. For this and other brags and deeds, the U.S. put Krupp high up on its war criminals list...
...Possible. Byrnes's two chief helpers are Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen, a handsome, alert careerist who acts as his Russian adviser-translator, and Benjamin V. ("Ben") Cohen, once mu:h the better half of F.D.R.'s (Thomas G.) Corcoran & Cohen team. Cohen, an idealist, is classified in what Washington calls the N.C.L.-non-Communist left. Byrnes likes to recall that he was an idealist once, himself. "In 1918 I was a follower of Woodrow Wilson. I gloried in his idealism and in the magnificent effort he made to build the peace upon the Covenant of the League...
Like any man who has spent 32 years in politics, Jimmy Byrnes has a well-developed bump of caution. Lost in a storm over Moscow last week, he fretted : "You know, we might run into the side of a mountain." His interpreter, Charles E. Bohlen, pointed out that there were no mountains "around here." "That's fine," said Byrnes, "but do you know where 'here' is?" After a full hour of circling they landed, and Byrnes, in a tan topcoat and low pointed shoes, alighted in Moscow's sub-zero weather...
Herr Gustav Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 75, head of Germany's notorious munitions dynasty, was too old and too sick to go on trial with the other indicted war criminals at Nürnberg. But Chief U.S. Prosecutor Robert Houghwout Jackson wanted a live Krupp in the dock. He had an idea: why not substitute 38-year-old Alfried Krupp for his ailing father? After all, all the Krupps were in the same boat. The Russians and French agreed; Jackson asked for a delay to write the new name into the old indictment. The International War Crimes Tribunal...