Talk:William Christian Bullitt, Jr.
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[edit] Brief reference, info not in article
From a Harper's article, Stabbed in the Back!, by Kevin Baker:
A growing chorus of right-wing voices now began to excoriate our wartime diplomacy. Their most powerful charge, one that would firmly establish the Yalta myth in the American political psyche, was the accusation that our delegation had given over Eastern Europe to the Soviets. According to “How We Won the War and Lost the Peace,” an essay written for Life magazine shortly before the 1948 election by William Bullitt—a former diplomat who had been dismissed by Roosevelt for outing a gay rival in the State Department—FDR and his chief adviser, Harry Hopkins, were guilty of “wishful appeasement” of Stalin at Yalta, handing the peoples of Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and the Baltic states over to the Soviet dictator.
and, two paragraphs later,
Just how he had accomplished this was never detailed, but it didn't matter; specificity is anathema to any myth. Bullitt and an equally flamboyant opportunist of the period, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce, offered a more general explanation. The Democrats, Mrs. Luce had already charged, “will not, or dare not, tell us the commitments that were overtly or secretly made in moments of war's extermination by a mortally ill President, and perhaps mortally scared State Department advisers.”
(Hope that qualifies as fair use)
bomfog 18:35, 1 November 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Predecessor/successor in infobox
I removed the ambassador-related content of the infobox because (1) he was ambassador to both France and the USSR but all the infobox information was USSR-oriented, and (2) many of the parameters are not supported by the infobox. However, all the relevant information is summarised in the succession boxes at the bottom of the article. Purgatorio (talk) 14:37, 9 December 2007 (UTC)
