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...distinguished audience that the Cardinal had before him. Representing Germany was plump Hermann Wilhelm Göring and a group of Nazi generals. Marshal Pétain and Foreign Minister Pierre Laval of France were there. Because U. S. Ambassador Cudahy was on vacation, busy, bald William C. Bullitt flew from Moscow to represent the U. S. The Earl of Cavan, a field marshal in the British Army, represented George...
...Marshal Pilsudski's heart will be buried by his mother's grave at Vilna. To capture Vilna, Marshal Pilsudski sent Poland to war in 1920, and his brain will go to the University of Warsaw, now to be known as Pilsudski University. Exhausted with much mourning, Ambassador Bullitt went to bed in Cracow...
Cheerful, suave, U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt is too good a diplomat to say that he thinks the way to deal with Russians is to treat them like grown-up children. But in Moscow last week he gave what amounted to a children's "animal party" for grown-up Bolshevik statesmen...
...ground floor of the new U. S. Embassy was decorated for its first grand ball as a combination barnyard and zoo. Moscow's two best jazz orchestras blared near a frisky goat, four droop-eyed sheep, a cageful of songbirds and roosters. Two bear cubs, borrowed by Ambassador Bullitt from the Moscow Public Zoo, spent most of the evening in each other's arms. Revelers in white ties included Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff, Education Commissar Bubnov, Foreign Trade Commissar Rosengolt. Only the most old-fashioned Belshevik guests such as Publicists Nikolai Bukharin and Karl Radek, came...
...Washington pencil-pushers last week totaled up $50,000 as the minimum cost to the U. S. thus far of recognizing the U. S. S. R., most of this sum being diplomats' salaries. Sick in Philadelphia was U. S. Ambassador to Russia William Christian Bullitt ($14,875), but in Moscow the wife of Chargé d'Affaires John C. Wiley ($7,310) lent her patronage, as did French Ambassador Charles Alphand (648,000 francs) to a ballet by Ulanova, the newest "Soviet Pavlova," who is an appetizing* 23-year-old. With the Soviet Pavlova danced a new "Soviet...