Senator KN0X. How long were you in Russia?

Mr. BULLITT. For only one month. I sometimes was instructed to go in and bringback as quickly as possible a definite statement of exactly the termsthe Soviet Government was ready to accept. The idea in the minds ofthe British and the American delegation were that if the Allies madeanother proposal it should be a proposal which we would know inadvance would be accepted, so that there would be no chance of anotherPrinkipos proposal miscarrying.

I might perhaps read first, or show to you, the official text. This isthe official text of their proposition which they armed me in Moscowon the 14th of March. Here is a curious thing--the Soviet foreignoffice envelope.