Word: bullitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the fall of France, bald, elegant William Christian Bullitt has moved across the U.S. stage, now out to the spotlight, now back to the wings. After his return from serving as Ambassador to France he was gradually lost to view: rumor said that he had gone into seclusion to write a book. Last winter he suddenly crossed the stage: he was President Roosevelt's special emissary on an eight weeks' tour of the Near East. Back he went into the shadow: rumor said he was thinking about running for Governor of Pennsylvania...
Characters. Thus, if all three men were present and in character, would Stalin the dictator, Churchill the imperialist and Bullitt the diplomat have appeared last week. But whether Churchill or Bullitt, or even Stalin, was actually in Moscow none but Nazi radio announcers professed to know. Even so, it was a good bet that they were, and that somewhere inside the Kremlin there was being played out an amazing scene in the drama of World...
...Stage. In Moscow the visiting diplomatic and military missions were dined and vodkaed at an elaborate dinner in the National Hotel. Toasts went round to "Our Glorious Red Army . . . Our Glorious Allies . . . Our Glorious Leader, Tovarish Stalin." If Churchill and Bullitt were in Moscow, they, too, were toasted. It was no secret that Ambassador Standley whiled away his spare time hitting golf balls against a backyard screen. General Bradley, abed with mild grippe, was unable to attend Thursday's ballet with Brigadier
Curtain. What all newsmen in Moscow may have been itching to report was that Churchill and Bullitt actually were in Moscow. If so, the Kremlin shrouded drama of the highest order...
...Churchill who spurred on the unsuccessful Anglo-U.S. military campaign against Red Russia which wound up World War I in 1919. It was Bullitt, a dashing young liberal, who went with the late Lincoln Steffens on a special mission to Moscow for President Wilson later in the same year. It was Bullitt, too, who said after the Paris Peace Conference that he was going to the Riviera "to lie on the sand and watch the world go to hell." The world did not go to hell, and in 1933 Bullitt was back in Russia as the first U.S. Ambassador...