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...Significance. Mr. Bullitt's story is too crisp and close-packed for adequate retelling. It is set down with a force, sweep and wine-laden atmosphere quite its own. On these first credentials alone the author passes for as formidable and welcome a newcomer among U.S. novelists as has arrived in many a day? a writer with the wide stance of the old school, the bold tongue of the new, and the deep, unfaltering insight which is taught in no school but is the birthright of big human historians...
...Author. William Christian Bullitt is a 35-year-old Philadelphian who, after a brilliant career at Yale, reported abroad and at Washington for the Philadelphia Public Ledger. His abilities and connections obtained him a position in the U.S. State Department, which sent him to Paris attached to the Peace Commission. In 1919 he went on a special mission to Russia, causing a diplomatic ruction of international proportions when, upon his return, he divulged various Allied attitudes toward the Soviet regime. He left the State Department under something of a cloud. In 1921 he accepted the post of "managing editor...
...from Col. E.M. House, Newton D. Baker, Edward W. Bok, Dr. Edwin A. Alderman, President of the University of Virginia; Dr. Kenneth C.M. Sills, President of Bowdoin College; Dr. Roscoe Pound, Dean of the Harvard Law School; William Allen White, Dr. W.H.P. Faunce, President of Brown University; William Marshall Bullitt...
...addition of a chapter on the famous Bullitt Affair adds nothing to our estimation of Mr. Lansing, whereas it substantiates the supine reluctance of the Secretary of State to break with the President. Whether this worked benefit or ill to the country is a problem for the future historian and not for the present generation, however much Mr. Lansing may wish it otherwise...
...Washington in the Russian Political Division of Military Intelligence. After the Armistice he went to the Peace Conference with the American legation, as an expert on the Russian question. Finally, in the spring of 1919, he returned to Russia for three weeks as an assistant to William C. Bullitt, who was in charge of the Bullitt Commission in Russia...