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Manual of Cold War. Kennan, who speaks fluent Russian, went to Moscow in 1933 with Ambassador William Bullitt (as Third Secretary) and has at various times spent five years in the Russian capital...
...Frank A. Trapp '47, while it is acquiring two resident and two non-resident tutors, Bernard Bailyn '47 of the General Education Department, and Joseph C. Palzmountain '48, of Government, are assuming the resident duties, while Richard T. Wilgur is the new non-resident tutor in English. John M. Bullitt '43, an English tutor, is changing from resident to non-resident status in Adams...
Wanted: A Fighting General. Was there still time to save China? Yes, said Bill Bullitt, if the U.S. really wanted to, and really went at it, i.e., if the U.S. were actually to take over the war against the Chinese Communists...
...Chinese soldier, when well-trained, well-fed and well-led, is as good as any, Bullitt reported. But, he said, many of the top-ranking officers are both incompetent and dishonest. Therefore, to turn the tide of the war in China, Bullitt said, requires American direction and control, exercised by "a fighting general of the highest qualities, with an adequate staff of able officers." He thought that General Douglas MacArthur could do the job quickest. But he also mentioned as prospects, General Mark W. Clark, and Lieut. Generals Albert C. Wedemeyer and J. Lawton Collins. He called for the revival...
...Dike Falls. Concluded Bullitt: "The dike which today prevents the Communist flood from sweeping southward to the Indian Ocean is the line of the Yangtze River in China. It is a formidable obstacle ... If the dike of the Yangtze falls, we shall let in upon ourselves a sea of troubles in comparison with which our present problems in the Far East will seem a mere unpleasant puddle . . . We do have to recognize that we are at one of the turning points of human history, and that we cannot afford to be wrong in our decisions, since the stake...