Retreat from Moscow
Bald and affable William Christian Bullitt's great dream came officially to an end last week. When in 1933 President Roosevelt revealed, as his first great diplomatic coup, the fact that the U. S. had recognized Russia, he simultaneously announced that his good friend, rich young "Bill" Bullitt, would go to Moscow as first U. S. Ambassador to the U. S. S. R. Recognition and appointment were a consummation for which Philadelphia's Bullitt had yearned and worked with increasing ardor ever since he went from the Peace Commission, supposedly...
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