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Joseph Stalin stands behind a paper-littered work table. He is smoking a pipe and wears the rough clothes of a peasant soldier. Enter Prime Minister Winston Churchill, followed by Special U.S. Envoy William Christian Bullitt. Churchill is wearing a seagoing cap and a short pea jacket; he is puffing on a long cigar. Bullitt is wearing grey striped trousers and cutaway coat with a dark red carnation in the buttonhole...
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
...Ambassador William C. Bullitt, 51, limped off a plane in Seattle with firm-gaited Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, 68. Friends' explanation: Bullitt had pulled a tendon showing Knox how to keep...
...About two months ago, Bill Bullitt quietly resigned from the board chairmanship, returned the first (and only) payment on his $12,000 a year salary...