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...confidence of old Marshal Petain, Nazi-approved boss of conquered France, and helping to neutralize France. Recalled to the U.S. in 1942, Old Sea Dog Leahy stayed close to F.D.R.. advised him without unduly influencing him (he took exception to some of the concessions to Russia at the Yalta Conference but was overruled), remained at his post as a five-star admiral after Roosevelt died, to help initiate the policy of firmness toward Russia...
...Bohlen but at Herter, Press Secretary Jim Hagerty worked fast to get the record straightened out. The President, in fact, had known and admired Chip Bohlen for years, had stood of Joe McCarthy and other powerful Senate Republicans (who grumbled that Russian-speaking Bohlen was a key figure at Yalta) to get him nominated in 1953 to Moscow. At week's end, after he simmered down, Ike by cable fired off statements of confidence to Bohlen in Manila. Chances were good that personable Chip Bohlen would eventually get his Washington job despite new grumbling from Republicans on Capitol Hill...
...buses will drive along the curve of Sunset Boulevard between Schwab's Drugstore and the gabled Marmont Chateau, with rubberneck guides remembering nasally: "Alla Nazimova lived here once. Paramount built her a mansion. The swimming pool was in the shape of the Black Sea to remind her of Yalta, where she was born...
Warmly Welcomed. In six weeks the process produced seven articles under the Harriman byline; e.g., on Yalta ("Seldom, I am told, has an American been more warmly welcomed"), on peace ("I have been received everywhere as an American who symbolizes our wartime alliance"), and Soviet penal reform (his hosts showed him only their showpiece prison outside Moscow...
...choice is still wide. The tourist can visit 27 Soviet cities on any of 45 Intourist itineraries, ranging from five to 23 days. The main travel circuit includes Moscow, Leningrad, Kiev, Tbilisi (the Eastern-flavored capital of Soviet Georgia), and the seaside resorts of the Black Sea (Sochi, Sukhumi, Yalta). More adventurous tourists can go to Riga, capital of Latvia; Irkutsk, the burgeoning capital of eastern Siberia; or far east to Tashkent and Alma-Ata. Intourist will also permit tourists to hunt in the Crimean game preserves, once reserved for Soviet V.I.P.s...