Evening star., 1933-02-12
The Mysterious Mr.. Bullitt
His Reveato senaten wiLon'sF Collapse

final report, Bullitt recommended and
indorsed to the President. mo rea
peace" he wrote. can be established
in Europe or in the world until peace
is made with the revolution" There
can be no doubt that Bullitt said fare
well to Lenin convinced that kolshe-
vism had come to stay and that in
many respects it was an improvement
on the old czaristic system.
Back in Paris, Bullitt saw Mr.. Lam
sing, Col. House, Mr. White and Gen.
Tasker H. Bliss; also MIR. Lloyd George,
Gen. Jan c. -Smuts, Sir Maurice
Hankey and Sir Eric Drummond. He
gave each copy of his report. A
dent by Mr.. Lansing. That was about
March 81. The story of the special
mission had broken" in the British,
French and American press on March
%. But Bullitt's report was not made
public. The President decided against
permitting it to be printed. Rumor
held that it was pigeon holed" at the
request of Premier Georges Clemen-
ceau. AS the events of the following
Autumn proved, the suppression of the
paper was a tactical error of major
consequence.
suggested conference.
The Lenin proposition was to expire
on April 10. Just week before that
date DR.. Fridjof Nansen, the Norwegian
explorer and humanitarian, addressed
to Mr.. Wilson letter appealing for a
neutral relief commission for the
famine sufferers in Russia. At the
direction of Col. House, Bullitt prepared
reply, suggesting an international
conference at Christiana, April 25
Nothing came of either proposal Mr.
Wilson did nothing, and Mr.. Lloyd
George went on the floor of the House
OF Commons to deny that he knew
anything whatever of any peace pro-
posals regarding Russia.
Rullitt waited until May IT, then
resigned. He wrote to the President
in part: "I was one of the millions who
trusted confidently .and implicitly in
your leadership and believed that you
would take nothing less than a per-
manent peace based upon 'unselfish
and unbiased Justice But our Gov
ernment has consented now to deliver
the suffering peoples of the world to
new expressions, subJections, and dis
memberments-a new century of war.
And I can convince myself no longer
that effective labor for a new world
Oi0Ci 10 P1oiDlc DIS u SERVANT OF tnlS
Government 1t Is my conviction
that if you had made your fight in the
open, instead of behind closed doors,
you would have carried with you the
public opinion of the world, which was
yours; you would have been able to
resist the pressure and might have
established the new international
order based upon broad and universal
principles of right and justice of which
you used to speak. I am sorry that
you did not fight our fight to the
finish and. that you had so little faith
in the millions of men, like myself,
in every nation, who had faith in you."
Conference Made History.
On the same day Bullitt had private
conference with Mr.. Lansing. Their
meeting on that occasion made history.
But the explosion was delayed until
September II, when Bullitt was sum-
moned to testify before the Committee
on Foreign Relations of the United
States Senate. The chairman of that
committee was Senator Henry Cabot
Lodge. an outstanding foe of the peace
treaty. Others present at the hearing
were Senators Brandegee. Fall. Knox.
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