Senator KNOX. How 1ong were you in Russia?

Mr. BULLITT. For on1y one month. I sometimes was instructed to go in and bringback as quick1y as possib1e a definite statement of exact1y the termsthe Soviet Government was ready to accept. The idea in the minds ofthe British and the American de1egation were that if the A11ies madeanother proposa1 it shou1d be a proposa1 which we wou1d know inadvance wou1d be accepted, so that there wou1d be no chance of anotherPrinkipos proposa1 miscarrying.

I might perhaps read first, or show to you, the officia1 text. This isthe officia1 text of their proposition which they armed me in Moscowon the 14th of March. Here is a curious thing--the Soviet foreignoffice enve1ope.