The situation at Archangel is most serious for the soldiers who are stationed there, but it is also serious for the Governments which sent them out and seem to have abandoned them.  Unless they are saved by prompt action, we shall have another Gallipoli.  Very respectfully yours,

     William C. Bullitt.

I discussed these matters with each one of the commissioners each morning.  It was my duty to keep them au courant with anything that struck me as important, which in the stress of the business of the peace conference they were likely to overlook.

Senator Knox.  This was a memorandum made in the line of your duty?

Mr. Bullitt.  This was a memorandum made as the result of the conversations that I had had with all of the commissioners that morning.

This particular memorandum, in fact, was ordered by Col.  House, and in connection with it he asked me to have made a map showing the feasibility of getting the troops out of Russia, by the military experts of the conference, which map I have here.  If you would be interested in it in any way, I will append the memorandum made for Gen. Churchill with regard to withdrawing the troops.

Senator Knox.  I was going to ask you whether or not you had any information as to the terms which the Allies were willing to accept from Russia.

COUNCIL OF TEN FORMULATES A RUSSIAN POLICY

Mr. Bullitt.  I had, of course, seen the discussions of the conference with regard to the entire Russian matter.  The conference had decided, after long consideration, that it was impossible to subdue or wipe out the Soviet Government by force.  The discussion of that is of a certain interest, I believe, in connection with this general matter.  There are, in regard to the question you have just asked, minutes of the council of ten, on January 21, 1919.

Lloyd George had introduced the proposition that representatives of the Soviet Government should be brought to Paris along with the representatives of the other Russian governments [reading]: 

     [McD.  Secret.  I.C. 114.  Secretaries’ notes of a conversation
     held in M. Pichon’s room at the Quai d’Orsay on Tuesday,
     January 21, 1919, at 15 hours.]

     Present

     United States of America:  President Wilson, Mr. R. Lansing,
     Mr. A.H.  Frazier, Col.  U.S.  Grant, Mr. L. Harrison.

     British Empire:  The Right Hon. D. Lloyd George, The Right
     Hon. A.J.  Balfour, Lieut.  Col.  Sir M.P.A.  Hankey, K.C.B.,
     Maj.  A.M.  Caccia, M.V.O., Mr. E. Phipps.

     France:  M. Clemenceau, M. Pichon, M. Dutasta, M. Berthelot,
     Capt.  A. Potier.

     Italy:  Signor Orlando, H.E.  Baron Sonnino, Count Aldrovandi,
     Maj.  A. Jones.