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...relations with Russia, the U.S. has rejected two extreme views of what Russia really wants. The leading spokesmen of these opposed views were Henry Wallace and William C. Bullitt (ex-Ambassador to Moscow). The Wallace view, in brief, was that, once Russia feels secure against attack, she will stop expanding and start providing the long-promised socialist Utopia for her own people. The Bullitt view was that the Bolshevik leaders are irrevocably committed by the "Communist creed" to world domination, and that nothing will stop them but force, the sooner applied, the better...
...Ex-Ambassador William C. Bullitt, badly injured in a traffic accident in 1945, went into a Manhattan hospital for a checkup on his spine, possibly an operation...
...Ex-Ambassador Joseph E. Davies & wife Marjorie (Post Close Hutton) took the long voyage home to Long Island. From Alexandria, Va. they went by yacht...
...William C. Bullitt, ex-Ambassador to the U.S.S.R. (1933-36), these lines of William Shakespeare's might well describe what happens when the Soviet Union has enough atomic bombs, and blows Western democracy to hell. Bullitt, who ended the war a major in the French Army, was struck by a car when walking along an icy road beside the Rhine in January 1945, has since spent most of his time recovering from a back injury and writing this book...
...latest book, is rounded out with chapters about Russian history and World Wars I & II, plus a trio of lengthy appendices listing the instances of Soviet military aggression, treaty-breaking and antidemocratic political chicanery. But the book's heart is in the relatively few pages in which ex-Ambassador Bullitt brusquely presses upon the American public the necessity of taking prompt steps to surround the U.S.S.R. with democratic military forces...