Word: chipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Aunty Molly summoned a group of foreign emissaries to his white-walled ministry. For the first time in years, he chatted pleasantly-a task that is far from easy for a man whose infrequent smiles seem to make his face ache. When the new U.S. ambassador, Charles ("Chip") Bohlen, arrived in Moscow to take up his post, Molotov sent his chief of protocol to the airport to shake his hand. The same day he talked for 49 minutes with the British ambassador, and asked after Foreign Secretary Eden's gallbladder complaint. With such small gestures, and vague...
Before the Senate met again, Dwight Eisenhower took occasion at his press conference to say a word for Chip Bohlen: he knew Bohlen and his charming family personally, had visited their home; he thought Bohlen, with his working knowledge of Russians and their language, was the best man available for the job. He was not disturbed by Bohlen's connections with the previous Administration, because in government a man must be loyal to his superiors...
This week Chip Bohlen took the oath of office and headed for Moscow...
...Right now, however, we're at a loss to discover why Senator McCarthy chose to make an issue of the nomination of Charles ('Chip') Bohlen as President Eisenhower's -and the country's-ambassador to Soviet Russia. The fact that Senator McCarthy thinks other people are more qualified is not relevant. The fact is that President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles tapped Bohlen for the job because they thought he was the best-equipped candidate they could find. Joe McCarthy has performed herculean service in the campaign to root subversives from the fabric...
...sure that Senators Taft, Knowland and Ferguson would have hardly stood still for the Bohlen appointment if they had not convinced themselves that President Eisenhower's choice was far from being a security risk. Matter of fact, McCarthy now concedes that Chip Bohlen is not a 'security risk.' Senator McCarthy, if we read him aright, now bases his opposition on darker, more sinister innuendoes usually associated with Communist smear campaigns, such as the one organized . . . to discredit Whittaker Chambers' testimony against Alger Hiss...