Reminiscences of Charles Eustis Bohlen : oral history, 1970.

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Reminiscences of Charles Eustis Bohlen : oral history, 1970.

Ambassador to Russia, 1950-1957; foreign crises during the Eisenhower administration: Hungary, Suez, U-2 incident, Cold War, Summit Conference; recollections of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nikita Khrushchev, John Foster Dulles.

Transcript: 25 leaves.

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Charles "Chip" Eustis Bohlen (1904-1973), diplomat and Russian specialist, was born in Clayton, New York. After Bohlen took his B.A. at Harvard in 1927, he went on a world tour on a tramp ship. Although he had not intended to become a diplomat, his extensive world travels with his family as a child and his course work at Harvard caused him to enter the Foreign Service in Washington in 1929. He was assigned as vice-consul at Prague until 1931, when he became vice-consul at Paris. Here he began se...