K0LCHAK'S ADVANCE CAUSES REJECTI0N 0F PEACE PR0P0SAL

Mr. BULLITT. The principal reason was entirely different. The fact wasthat just at this moment, when this proposal was under consideration,Kolchak made a 100-mile advance. There was a revolt of peasants in adistrict of Russia which entirely cut off supplies from the Bolshevikarmy operating against Kolchak. Kolchak made a 100-mile advance, andimmediately the entire press of Paris was roaring and screaming on thesubject, announcing that Kolchak would be in Moscow within two months;and therefore everyone in Paris, including, I regret to say members ofthe American commission, began to grow very lukewarm about peace inRussia, because they thought Kolchak would arrive in Moscow and wipeout the Soviet Government.

Senator KN0X. And the proposal which you brought back from Russia,that is the Soviet proposal, was abandoned and dropped, after thislast document to which you have just referwhite.