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Instead, Mr. Bullitt turned up before the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee to make screaming headlines for days by blurting out his inside opinions of the Paris Peace Conference, Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations. Premier Lloyd George dignified these proceedings by calling Mr. Bullitt a "liar," referred contemptuously to "a journey some boys are reported to have made to Russia." When smug Philadelphia friends called him a "Bolshevik"' and when his first wife divorced him in 1923, Bill Bullitt married the widow of John Reed, the U. S. Communist who went through the Russian Revolution, wrote...
Early on the Roosevelt bandwagon, irrepressible Bill Bullitt turned up in London as Executive Officer of the U. S. Delegation to the World Monetary and Economic Conference. Offside he had long conversations with Chief Soviet Delegate Litvinoff. Possibly these talks paved the way for recognition...
...Episcopal Church House, Philadelphia, last week Archdeacon the Rev. James F. Bullitt, uncle of the new Ambassador, flared: "The United States has disgraced itself by establishing relations with a country which is beyond the palea pariah among nations...
...room office in the huge Department of Commerce Building. At its head was Katherine C. Blackburn, a dark, plump, capable woman who has been a professional newsreader and factfinder for 14 years. She clipped papers for President Taft, did research work at the World Economic Conference for William Christian Bullitt, recently functioned as factfinder to Professor Raymond Moley. Miss Blackburn has a smoothly organized staff of 17 assistants to scissor, file and index clips from 400 or more U. S. newspapers. She does most of the editorial work of rewriting the contents into brief paragraphs in the Bulletin, distributed...
...recognized. 2 ) Upon excited Europe and the Far East (though Japan loudly professed to see in it nothing admonitory) the drawing together of Russia and the U. S. must have a quieting effect. 3) The quieting effect upon U. S.-domestic excitements was instant and undisputed. For William Bullitt, now special assistant to the Secretary of State, it was also a triumph: weeks of quiet negotiation by him and by John Van Antwerp MacMurray, who is apparently slated to turn in his Latvia-Estonia-Lithuania portfolio and become Ambassador to Moscow, led up to last weeks exchange of letters...