Senator Knox.  Do you know how these telegrams were received in Paris, whether favorably or unfavorably?

Mr. Bullitt.  I can only say, in regard to that, there are three other very brief ones.  One was on a subject which I might give you the gist of before I go on with it.

Senator Knox.  Go ahead, in your own way.

Mr. Bullitt.  Col.  House sent me a message of congratulation on receipt of them, and by one of the curious quirks of the conference, a member of the secretariat refused to send the message because of the way in which it was signed, and Col.  House was only able to give me a copy of it when I reached Paris.  I have a copy of it here.

Senator Harding.  Would not this story be more interesting if we knew which member of the conference objected?

Mr. Bullitt.  I believe the objection was on the technical point that Col.  House had signed “Ammission” instead of his name, but I really do not know which member of the conference it was that made the objection.

I then sent another telegram, which is rather long, too long to attempt to paraphrase, and I will ask that I may not put it in, because the entire substance of it is contained in briefer form in my formal report.  This telegram itself is in code.

Senator Brandegee.  Are there any translations of those of your telegrams that are in code?

Mr. Bullitt.  No; I have given you the substance of them as I have gone along.

As I said to you before, Secretary Lansing had instructed me if possible to obtain the release of Mr. Treadwell, our consul at Tashkent, somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 miles from Moscow.  In Moscow I had spoken to Lenin and Tchitcherin and Litvinov in regard to it, and finally they said they recognized that it was foolish to hold him; that they had never really given much thought to the matter; that he had been held by the local government at Tashkent, which was more than 4,000 miles away; that raids were being made on the railroad constantly, and they might have some difficulty in communicating.  However, they promised me that they would send a telegram at once ordering his release, and that they would send him out either by Persia or by Finland whichever way he preferred.  I told them I was sure he would prefer to go by way of Finland.  Here is a copy of their telegram ordering his release, which will not be of much use to you, I fear, as it is in Russian.  They carried out this promise to the letter, releasing Treadwell at once, and Treadwell in due course of time and in good health appeared on the frontier of Finland on the 27th of April.  All that time was consumed in travel from Tashkent, which is a long way under present conditions.

Senator new.  I saw Mr. Treadwell here some time ago.