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Edward Crowninshield Browne, Logan Bullitt...
Last fortnight the New York Times's C. L. Sulzberger wrote a piece to the effect that Soviet Russian statesmen act very much like their merely Russian predecessors. For illustration, he told of a prank played by William C. Bullitt when he was U.S. Ambassador to Moscow (1933-36). In the Embassy files, Bullitt found copies of the reports of Neill S. Brown, U.S. Minister to St. Petersburg nearly a century ago (1850-53). Bullitt changed a few names and details, sent the reports back as his own. The State Department took them for what they were: penetrating comments...
...Department will not release the Bullitt notes. But Brown's 34 reports are open to inspection. They illuminate many a present problem and indicate that even if the Soviet revolution had not interposed an ideological chasm between the U.S.S.R. and the U.S., the two countries would find it hard to do serious business with each other...
Major William C. Bullitt, 54, elegant ex-U.S. Ambassador to France, now of the French Army (he was rejected by the U.S. Army because of age), was appointed military governor of Baden-Baden, elegant German watering place (which was captured by General de Tassigny's French troops...
David Josefovich Zaslavsky is the Westbrook Pegler of the Russian press. He has slashed at General Douglas MacArthur, Military Critic Hanson Baldwin, the late Wendell Willkie, William C. Bullitt. Last fortnight Zaslavsky slashed at Soviet bureaucrats. His theme: the scarcity of nipples in Russia...