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...That spectacular American," as laudatory Paris papers have dubbed William Christian Bullitt, drove in his limousine into the courtyard of the Elysee Palace last week, took the salute of a battalion of the French Garde Républicaine, and presented to cordial President Albert Lebrun his credentials as U. S. Ambassador. For twelve years popular and Bohemian "Bill" Bullitt has maintained a studio in Paris, and he put his heart into telling M. Lebrun: "I come to France not as a stranger but as one who for many years has known the magnificent achieve ments of French civilization...
...Russia that "President Roosevelt as a private citizen has been a friend of the Soviet." The first public champagne toast to Mr. Roosevelt drunk by Soviet officials in Moscow was at a party organized by Radek to celebrate the appointment as U. S. Ambassador to Russia of William Christian Bullitt, now U. S. Ambassador to France. It was Journalist Radek who interviewed Mr. Bullitt in Moscow in 1932 and quoted him as saying: "In all the world stalks destruction...
...Moscow, as an outspoken friend of the Soviet Union and a onetime husband of the widow of its U. S. Hero John Reed, Ambassador Bullitt quickly became the most favored of capitalist envoys. On the understanding that Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff had promised President Roosevelt that Russia would buy great quantities of U. S. goods in return for recognition, Ambassador Bullitt made plans for a $1,200,000 Embassy, which Congress on the same understanding had authorized, awaited the Red trade orders which would cement the U. S. and the U. S. S. R. in bonds of commercial...
...goods only if the U. S. gave her unlimited credit and a long, long time to pay. Plans for the million-dollar Embassy were abandoned, the idle Embassy staff was pared to the bone. Climax came last summer when President Roosevelt was forced to transmit through Ambassador Bullitt a sharp note charging the Russian Government with flagrant violation of its pledge not to foster Red propaganda on U. S. soil (TIME, Sept. 2, 1935). Early last June disillusioned Bill Bullitt returned to the U. S. At the Patrick Henry Bicentennial celebration in Hanover County, Va. in July, appearing...
...Ambassador to France Jesse Isidor Straus, who fainted while reviewing a Bastille Day parade in Paris, had been forced to resign his job because of ill health. Half-hour later a one-line White House release announced that Ambassador Straus's successor at Paris would be William Christian Bullitt...