(With the Editorial Assistance of Robert H. Phelps; The au...)
With the Editorial Assistance of Robert H. Phelps; The author's memoirs- tells us of thirty-five years of Soviet-American relationships...
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Bohlen was born in Clayton, New York, on August 30, 1904, to Celestine Eustis Bohlen, the daughter of James B. Eustis, a Senator from Louisiana and ambassador to France under Grover Cleveland and Charles Bohlen, a "gentleman of leisure. " The second of three Bohlen children, he acquired an interest in foreign countries by traveling in Europe as a boy.
He studied at Harvard and graduated in 1927.
In 1929 he entered U. S. Foreign Service. He served in Prague (1929- 1931), Paris (1931 - 1934), and Moscow (1934 - 1940). After brief service in Tokyo (1940 - 1941), he returned to Washington to serve as assistant chief of the State Department's Division of European Affairs. As chief of the Division of Eastern European Affairs, Bohlen interpreted for President Roosevelt at his meeting with Marshal Stalin at Yalta (February 1945). Bohlen translated for President Truman when he met with Stalin at Potsdam (July 1945). From 1947 to 1953 Bohlen was counselor of the State Department. In 1953, President Eisenhower named him ambassador to the Soviet Union. Despite the opposition led by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, based on Bohlen's close identification with the Roosevelt-Truman foreign policy, the Senate confirmed his nomination. Bohlen served in Moscow from 1953 to 1957. He was ambassador to the Philippines from 1957 to 1959. Returning to Washington, he became adviser on Soviet affairs to the secretary of state. Bohlen was ambassador to France from 1962 until 1967, when he became deputy undersecretary of state for political affairs. He retired in 1969 and published The Transformation of Foreign Policy the same year. In 1973 he published his memoirs, Witness to History. Bohlen died January 1, 1974, in Washington, D. C.
(With the Editorial Assistance of Robert H. Phelps; The au...)
In 1935, Bohlen married Avis Howard Thayer, born September 18, 1912 in Philadelphia, the daughter of George Thayer and Gertrude Wheeler. They had 3 children
