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Since the Russian Embassy in Washington was vacated by the last Imperial envoy, 16 years have passed. In 1919 a favorable report on Bolshevik Russia by a young diplomat named William Christian Bullitt was rejected by Woodrow Wilson in Paris; no one believed Bullitt when he insisted that the Bolsheviks would remain in power. A roly-poly Russian named Maxim Maximovich Litvinov was refused a visa when Lenin appointed him Soviet Ambassador...
Ranged around to help Dr. Moley help the President was a corps of U. S. sub-experts, chief among them William Christian Bullitt, veteran of the Paris Peace Conference and unofficial man-about-Europe whom President Roosevelt fortnight ago put back into the State Department as a special assistant to Secretary Hull; James Paul Warburg, able banking son of an able banking father; and Charles William Taussig, head of American Molasses Co., a minor member of the Roosevelt "Brain Trust'' during the cam- paign. James Warburg's father was the late Paul Moritz Warburg, member...
...round holes in the Versailles Treaty and quoted private conversations in Paris to make them bigger. He released his report on Russia and became a U. S. headline character. Mr. Lloyd George referred to "a journey some boys were reported to have made to Russia" and flayed the Bullitt report as a "tissue of lies." The net result of Diplomat Bullitt's activities was to furnish Republican Senators additional ammunition with which to de feat ratification of the peace treaty. But for speaking his mind he became a diplomatic outcast, with every Wilsonian Democrat ascribing his behavior to personal...
After a Paris divorce in 1923, Bullitt married Anne Moen Louise Bryant Reed, widow of Red John Reed of Greenwich Village who went to Russia and today lies buried in the Kremlin wall. They had one daughter. In 1930 they, too, were divorced. Mr. Bullitt continued to travel in Europe every year, keeping up his personal contacts in London, Paris, Berlin and Vienna. His mind and manner seemed to please foreign statesmen as he told them what the U. S. was thinking and doing. In 1926 he published a novel (It Can't Be Done). Among his unproduced plays...
Most of Mr. Bullitt's predictions about the world's "going to hell" have materialized. Today he seems a much better prophet than he did in 1919. The Versailles Treaty is in disrepute. Reparations have ceased. Germany is again a world power to be reckoned with. The Russian problem is no nearer solution than it was when he went to Moscow. But Special Assistant Bullitt is too smart to say openly, "I told...