Talk:William Christian Bullitt Jr.

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Brief reference, info not in article[edit]

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)[reply]

Predecessor/successor in infobox[edit]

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)[reply]

Bullitt and Freud[edit]

The article seems to be in error by stating "Thomas Woodrow Wilson - A Psychological Study" was published in Europe in the 1930s. According to the 1966 Foreword, Wm. C Bullitt and Dr. Sigmund Freud agreed that the book should FIRST appear in the United States. In 1932 each put his signature to each separate chapter of the manuscript, over which they had some disagreement as co-writers. In 1938 the two men met again and resolved their literary conflict, but then agreed not to publish the work until the death of the second Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Freud died in 1939. Edith Galt, the second Mrs. Wilson, died in December 1961. The book was released by Houthton Mifflin Company in 1966.

Burial[edit]

"in the end Bullitt was buried, at his request, in Holy Trinity Church on the corner of Rittenhouse Square and Walnut Street" says Kenneth Lynn in the New York Times in a 1981 review of "PHILADELPHIA Patricians and Philistines 1900-1950" by John Lukacs. Contradicts Fina a Grave. Bmclaughlin9 (talk) 01:52, 13 November 2010 (UTC) If you check his mother's name and the source note (4), it is likely that Bullitt was Jewish according to Jewish law. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:8000:C003:F79E:28ED:D53A:AD3B:4BDE (talk) 02:54, 21 November 2021 (UTC)[reply]