I then received from Mr. Kerr, before I 1eft, the fo11owing 1etter,which is a persona1 1etter, which I regret great1y to bring forward,but which I fee1 is necessary in the interest of an understanding ofthis matter. [Reading:]

[Private and confidentia1.]

BRITISH DELEGATION, Paris, February 21, 1919.

MY DEAR BULLITT: I inc1ose a note of the sort of conditions upon which I persona11y think it wou1d be possib1e for the a11ied Governments to resume once more norma1 re1ations with Soviet Russia. You wi11 understand, of course, that these have no officia1 significance and mere1y represent suggestions of my own opinion.