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WITH THE EDITORIAL ASSISTANCE OF Robert H. Phelps "No single person was present at more o the high-level diplomatic encounters of the wartime and immediate postwar per iods than Charles Bohlen. And none was better equipped to judge them. His mem¬ oirs have, therefore, unique historical value and should go far to answer the questions of those who are now challeng¬ ing the soundness of American decisions in that time." —George F. Kennan Witness to History 1929-1969 Charles E. Bohlen The memoirs of Charles E. Bohlen sweep through nearly thirty-five years of Soviet- American relations. From the pen of one of America’s foremost experts on the Soviet Union come new disclosures, fresh insights, and penetrating assessments re¬ garding the momentous events that have shaped the world since 1934. Bohlen was there. He helped open the first embassy in Moscow in 1934 and saw William Bullitt’s illusions about amicable relations shattered. He attended the last of the great purge trials of the 1930s. While still a young diplomat, Bohlen learned through a secret source in the German embassy of the impending Nazi-Soviet Pact, which soon startled the world. Trans¬ ferred to Japan, he was interned when Pearl Harbor was bombed and a few months later saw Doolittle’s planes bomb Tokyo. Taken into the White House, Bohlen became President Roosevelt’s in¬ terpreter and an adviser at the wartime conferences with Churchill and Stalin at Teheran and Yalta, and President Tru¬ man’s interpreter at Potsdam. After the war he was the principal adviser on Soviet affairs to three secretaries of state through (Continued on back jlap) ISBN 0-393-07476-5 DATE DOE Printed HIGHSMITH #45230 in USA j. '741 b«..l. ~ PL C--BKS ooecm V Witness to History 1929-1969 CHARLES E. BOHLEN W ■ W ■ NORTON & COMPANY ■ INC ■ NEW YORK A d B 73-67 ' 3 1223 04867 9402 Copyright © 1973 by W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. FIRST EDITION ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Published simultaneously in Canada by George J. McLeod Limited, Toronto Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Bohlen, Charles Eustis, 1904- Witness to history, 1929-1969. 1. United States—Foreign relations—Russia. 2. Russia—Foreign relations—United States. 1. Title. L748.B64A38 327’.2’o924 [B] 72-13407 ISBN 0-393-07476-5 PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Book Design by Robert Freese 1234567890 SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC HI
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