Mr. BULLITT. Yes; it was. May I say this, that April 10 was the finaldate when their proposition was open. I had attempted every day andalmost every night to obtain a reply to it. I finally requested thecommission to send the following telegram to Tchitcherin.

I proposed to send this telegram to the American consul at Helsingfors[reading]:

APRIL 10, 1919. AMERICAN C0NSUL, Helsingfors:

Please send Kock or other reliable person immediately to Petrograd to Schklovsky, minister of foreign affairs, with following message for Tchitcherin: