BREAKFAST WITH LLOYD GEORGE

BULLITT REPORT SUPPRESSED

Proposed declaration of associated governments’ policy and offer of
  armistice

NANSEN PLAN TO FEED RUSSIA

AUCHINCLOSS-MILLER PROPOSAL

BULLITT MEMORANDUM FOR AUCHINCLOSS

REPLY OF PRESIDENT AND THREE PREMIERS TO NANSEN

HOLCHAK’S ADVANCE CAUSES REJECTION OF PEACE PROPOSAL

LLOYD GEORGE DECEIVES PARLIAMENT

MR. BULLITT RESIGNS

REPORT OF LINCOLN STEFFENS

REPORTS OF CAPT.  W.W.  PETTIT

SOCIAL WORK IN PETROGRAD

THE COMMITTEE ADJOURNS

UNITED STATES SENATE, COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN RELATIONS,

Washington, D.C., Friday, September 12, 1919.

The committee met, pursuant to the call of the chairman, at 10 o’clock a.m., in room 310, Senate Office Building, Senator Henry Cabot Lodge presiding.

Present:  Senators Lodge (chairman), Brandegee, Fall, Knox, Harding, and New.

The chairman.  Mr. Bullitt is to make a statement to the committee this morning.  I think I ought to say that Mr. Bullitt was summoned on the 23d of August, I believe, and he was in the woods at that time, out of reach of telegraph or telephone or mail, and only received the summons a few days ago.  He came at once to Washington.  That is the reason of the delay in his hearing.

The chairman.  Mr. Bullitt, will you take the stand and give your full name, please, to the stenographer?

Mr. Bullitt, William C. Bullitt.

The chairman.  You are a native and a resident of Philadelphia, are you not?

Mr. Bullitt.  I am, sir.

The chairman.  Prior to the war, what were you engaged in?

Mr. Bullitt.  Before the war I was employed by the Philadelphia Public Ledger.  I had been a correspondent for them in various places, and I had been a member of the editorial staff in Philadelphia for a time.

The chairman.  You went abroad for them as a correspondent?

Mr. Bullitt.  I did, sir.

The chairman.  Before we went into the war?

Mr. Bullitt.  Before we went into the war I toured Germany, Austria, Hungary, Belgium, Poland, and other places, studying conditions there, for the purposes of the Public Ledger.

The chairman.  After we entered the war, what did you do?  You came back?

Mr. Bullitt.  Yes, sir; I came back.  I was in the United States at that time.