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...meadow across the river from Moscow. They dangled polo mallets from their wrists. With them rode a Philadelphia socialite who had won his one-goal rating with the Bryn Mawr Polo Club and the West Point polo team, Charles W. Thayer, personal secretary to U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt...
...Bill Bullitt was also born & bred a Philadelphia socialite of the bluest. But today he is famed as the only envoy in Moscow whom Bolsheviks consider practically one of themselves. His second wife was the widow of famed U.S. Communist John Reed who lies buried in the Kremlin wall. Two months ago he persuaded the Russian high command to tell off a squad of cavalrymen to learn polo from his secretary. He pointed out that polo was played many centuries ago by the horsemen of Tibet who gave it its name pulu. Ambassador Bullitt, in trig khaki riding breeches...
Before the game, at luncheon and afterward at dinner Ambassador Bullitt played host to the two potent Red Commissars and three high-ranking Red Army officers, on a footing of hearty intimacy such as no bourgeois Ambassador has ever achieved in Moscow...
Russians beheld the arrival upside down in Leningrad last week of U. S. Ambassador William Christian Bullitt as the government plane, piloted from Moscow by the U. S. military attache, nosed over on landing and left both men hanging heels over heads from their safety straps. First news of this event reached President Roosevelt in an Ambassadorial cable: "PLANE LANDED UPSIDE DOWN BUT WE EMERGED RIGHT SIDE UP. TRUST NO ONE HAS REPORTED TO YOU THAT WE ARE DEAD...
...Sent to Russia by the New York Times in 1921, he has been there off & on ever since, has gradually become the most official of unofficial U. S. ambassadors. When Commissar Maxim Litvinoff arrived last November in the U. S., Correspondent Duranty arrived with him. When Ambassador William C. Bullitt made his first official visit to the U. S. S. R. last December, Duranty was at his elbow. If any one man could be said to have reconciled Capitalist U. S. and Communist Russia, Duranty is the man. Critics have accused him of being no newshawk but a dove...