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...last week, official Washington hung breathlessly on the march of events in the powder-keg Middle East, not knowing whether the U.S. would or would not be in a shooting war with Russian "volunteers" within the next 48 hours. Diplomatic dispatches from U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and press reports from U.S. correspondents in Moscow added up to a tentative conclusion: the Russians had decided to move their "volunteers" at least into Syria and possibly into Egypt, to stake out the Red army's first foothold in the Middle East. U.S. intelligence added solid evidence that complete...
...Fourth of July garden party in the U.S. embassy in Moscow, U.S. Ambassador Charles E. ("Chip") Bohlen led the Soviet Union's top topers, Nikita Khrushchev and Nikolai Bulganin, to a table laden with Scotch and bourbon. TV crewmen popped a microphone under the nose of Bulganin, who genially obliged with a toast to the American people and the health of Dwight Eisenhower. As some 600 diplomats and tourists milled about the lawn, Khrushchev chortled to a startled U.S. sightseer: "We have a lot to learn from Americans [but] they are afraid we might find out some secrets...
...Western diplomats aside and justified his attitude by saying he was now "convinced that great changes have taken place in Russia." But when he complained that he had been misquoted in the U.S. press as saying that he and the Russians were going "arm in arm," U.S. Ambassador Charles Bohlen pointed out that that was exactly how he had been reported in Pravda. Tito looked a little taken aback. He had only wanted to say. he insisted, that he and the Russians had marched arm in arm in World...
...toast collective leadership, Mollet invited his guests to try the buffet. Only Mikoyan helped himself. Mollet then inquired slyly whether, under collective leadership, "If one man eats, the others are no longer hungry?" Closer to the canapés, Bulganin, Khrushchev and Marshal Zhukov chatted with U.S. Ambassador "Chip" Bohlen. Khrushchev ribbed Zhukov for helping himself "as though you haven't eaten for a day." Said Bohlen: "But the marshal is much thinner, now that he's lost 1,200,000 troops." A ripple of stout laughter floated across the room...
Word leaked out that German Munitions Magnate Alfred Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, barred from the U.S. as a convicted Nazi war criminal, nonetheless visited New York City last month. It was not his fault. Flying from London to the Bahamas for a vacation, Krupp was plunked down by surprise in the U.S. when his plane developed engine trouble. To ease its passengers' eight-hour delay, British Overseas Airways Corp. arranged a Manhattan sightseeing tour, dragged visaless Krupp along despite his spirited protests. After a gander at the United Nations headquarters, the Statue of Liberty, the TIME & LIFE Building...