Mr. BULLITT.  I have read some of them, sir.

Senator BRANDEGEE.  Did the others have anything similar to what is now article 10 in the treaty pending in the Senate?

Mr. BULLITT.  I really can not say.  I am sorry, but I have forgotten.  I should not care to testify on that.

Senator BRANDEGEE.  Do you know from what you heard while you were there in your official capacity whether the other nations were anxious to have article 10 in the covenant for the league?

Mr. BULLITT.  The French were not only anxious for it, but I believe were anxious greatly to strengthen it.  They desired immediately a league army to be established, and I believe also to be stationed in Alsace-Lorraine and along the Rhine, in addition to article 10.  I can not say for certain about the others.

The CHAIRMAN.  Mr. Bullitt, we had before us at one of our hearings a representative of the Egyptian people.  Do you know anything about that, when it was done, or any discussions about it?  I mean the clauses that appear in regard to the British protectorate.

Mr. BULLITT.  You mean our agreement to recognize the British protectorate in Egypt?

The CHAIRMAN.  It was recognized by this treaty in those clauses.

Mr. BULLITT.  Yes; but we gave a sort of assent before the treaty formally came out, did we not?  I recall the morning it was done.  It was handled by Sir William Wiseman, who was the confidential representative that Lloyd George and Balfour had constantly with Col.  House and the President.  He was a sort of extra confidential foreign office.  It was all done, if I recall his statement correctly, in the course of one morning.  The President was informed that the Egyptian nationalists were using his 14 points as meaning that the President thought that Egypt should have the right to control her own destinies, and therefore have independence, and that they were using this to foment revolution; that since the President had provoked this trouble by the 14 points, they thought that he should allay it by the statement that we would recognize the British protectorate, and as I remember Sir William Wiseman’s statement to me that morning, he said that he had only brought up the matter that morning and that he had got our recognition of the British protectorate before luncheon.

The CHAIRMAN.  The President made some public statement?

Mr. BULLITT.  I am not certain in regard to the further developments of it.  I recall that incident, that it was arranged through Sir William Wiseman, and that it took only a few minutes.

Senator KNOX.  That was a good deal of time to devote to a little country like Egypt.

Mr. BULLITT.  I do not know.  You should know, sir, you have been Secretary of State.

Senator KNOX.  We never chewed them up that fast.

Senator NEW.  Mr. Bullitt, what, if anything, was said with reference to the Irish question, with which you are familiar?