Word: bullitts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Steinhardt, who succeeds John Van A. MacMurray at Ankara, will work with Envoy-at-Large William Christian Bullitt, now in the Near East, and with his own successor in Moscow, probably Major General James H. Burns, a great admirer of the Russian Army...
Bald, earnest William Christian Bullitt, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Russia, onetime Ambassador to France, has won few diplomatic triumphs but has never failed as a super-reporter. From his old friend Franklin Roosevelt he got an assignment that fitted his talents as neatly as his well-tailored suits fit his broad-shouldered frame...
...William Bullitt will go to the Near East in the same eyes-&-ears role that Harry Hopkins, ill this week in the Naval Hospital, filled recently in Moscow. On this vast reportorial beat, in the Nile River Valley and along the Red Sea and Persian Gulf are the momentous answers to some of the newest and gravest questions of World...
...getting the answers, from the Near East's sheiks and emirs, its shahs and kings and plain people, Bullitt will have the advantage of his old newspaper training (Philadelphia Public Ledger), his knack for talking easily to new acquaintances, his enthusiasm for discovery...
Since the fall of France, Bullitt has been on the sidelines except for an occasional odd job for the President, an occasional speech to inflate a trial balloon. Now he has a job that is up his alley...