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...most eminent caller was Ambassador to France ''Bill" Bullitt, one of the most trusted of his foreign emissaries. Unlike other Presidents, who frequently filled diplomatic posts to repay political debts to party fat-cats whom they were glad to have out of the way, Franklin Roosevelt has stationed two of his favored advisers, Joe Kennedy and Bill Bullitt, in important embassies abroad. Last week Mr. Kennedy in London advised Democracies and Dictators to learn to get on together in the same world...
...When Mr. Bullitt arrived, after surviving a forced landing two days before in the airplane of Governor Earle of Pennsylvania, the perennial rumor of a War debt settlement with France revived. Europe's affairs were doubtless a leading topic for discussion. The pair went motoring, talked long and privately while picnic-lunching at the roadside...
...Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy an envoy who flung his dynamic energies without reserve into the job of getting them home as fast as possible. During the panic period Mr. Kennedy was not perhaps quite as close to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain as U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was to Premier Edouard Daladier, but he unquestionably saw the crisis from the inside. Last week he spoke his mind at the annual Trafalgar Day Dinner of Britain's Navy League while other U. S. crisis-insiders continued to keep mum about Munich...
...TIME, Sept. 12 you published the statement: "U. S. Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt went further, suddenly declared impromptu at a Bordeaux banquet in the presence of three members of the French Cabinet: 'France and my country are indefectively united in war as in peace...
William Chambers '39 from Missouri, Robert Lane '39 of New York, Arthur Lane '39 of Belmont, Ralph Taylor '39 of Somerville, Joseph Goehern '40 of South Weymouth, Logan Bullitt '41 from Maine, Irving Lewis '39 of Dorchester, and Sara Cummins and Ethel Pollok, both from Radcliffe, hope to catch Curley writing the speech which he will deliver to the Convention this afternoon...