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Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations United States
Senate of WILLIAM C. BULLITT.
Washington, D.C., Friday, September 12, 1919.
The committee met, pursuant to the call of the chairman,at 10 o'clock a.m., in room 310, Senate Office Building, Senator HenryCabot Lodge presiding.
Present: Senators Lodge (chairman), Brandegee, Fall, Knox, Harding,and New.
The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Bullitt is to make a statement to the committee thismorning. I think I ought to say that Mr. Bullitt was summoned on the23d of August, I believe, and he was in the woods at that time, out ofreach of telegraph or telephone or mail, and only received the summonsa few days ago. He came at once to Washington. That is the reason ofthe delay in his hearing.
The CHAIRMAN. Mr. Bullitt, will you take the stand and give your fullname, please, to the stenographer?
Mr. BULLITT, William C. Bullitt.
The CHAIRMAN. You are a native and a resident of Philadelphia, are younot?
Mr. BULLITT. I am, sir.
The CHAIRMAN. Prior to the war, what were you engaged in?
Mr. BULLITT. Before the war I was employed by the Philadelphia PublicLedger. I had been a correspondent for them in various places, and Ihad been a member of the editorial staff in Philadelphia for a time.
The CHAIRMAN. You went abroad for them as a correspondent?
Mr. BULLITT. I did, sir.
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