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29
.
Ibid.
, pp. 383–4.
30
.
Ibid.
, pp. 468 and 472.
31
.
Ibid.
, p. 590.
32
.
Ibid.
, pp. 641–2 and 669.
33
.
Ibid.
, p. 837.
34
.
New York Times
, 22 February 1919.
35
.
Ibid.
36
.
Ibid.
, 23 February 1919; V. V. Aldoshin, Yu. V. Ivanov, V. M. Semënov and V. A. Tarasov (eds),
Sovetsko-amerikanskie otnosheniya: gody nepriznaniya, 1918–1926
, p. 19 (Rhys Williams testimonial letter of appointment).
37
. See S. White,
Britain and the Bolshevik Revolution
, pp. 175–7, for the general trend.

18. The Paris Peace Conference

 

1
. R. Lansing,
The Big Four and Others of the Peace Conference
, pp. 38–9.
2
.
Ibid
., p. 41.
3
.
Ibid.
, pp. 57–8.
4
. J. M. Keynes,
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
, p. 16.
5
.
New York Times
, 22 January 1919.
6
. Bullitt’s notes in
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, of William C. Bullitt
, p. 7.
7
.
Ibid
., pp. 7–9 and 10–11.
8
. H. Hoover,
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
, pp. 116–17.
9
.
New York Times
, 21 January 1919.
10
.
Ibid
., 22 January 1919;
Manchester Guardian
, 23 December 1918.
11
.
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations
, pp. 1–2.
12
. R. Lansing, diary entry, 22 January 1919: Robert Lansing Papers (HIA).
13
.
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations
, pp. 21–3.
14
. A. Ransome,
Russia in 1919
, pp. 1 and 3;
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations
, pp. 5–6.
15
.
The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, 1856–1924
, vol. 53, pp. 492–4. See D. S. Foglesong,
America’s Secret War against Bolshevism: U.S. Intervention in the Russian Civil War, 1917–1920
, p. 279.
16
.
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign Relations
, pp. 5–6.
17
. (H. Nicolson),
The Harold Nicolson Diaries: 1907–1963
, 24 January 1919.
18
. W. S. Churchill,
The World Crisis
, vol. 4:
The Aftermath
, p. 173.
19
.
Ibid
., p. 174.
20
. H. Wilson to A. Milner, 12 January 1919: Milner Papers, dep. 46/1, fol. 107.
21
. Churchill,
The World Crisis
, vol. 4:
The Aftermath
, p. 173.
22
.
Ibid
., p. 174.
23
.
Ibid.
, p. 176.
24
.
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign
Relations
, pp. 3–5.
25
.
Ibid.
, pp. 34–6.
26
.
Ibid.
, p. 37; P. H. Kerr (Paris) to Sir R. Graham: minute, 11 July 1919,
Documents on British Policy Overseas
, no. 105169/43654/38.
27
.
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign
Relations
, p. 39.
28
.
Ibid
., p. 44.
29
. A. Ransome,
Russia in 1919
, p. 231.
30
. George Hill’s answers to Robin Bruce Lockhart’s questionnaire, p. 5: Robert Hamilton Bruce Lockhart Papers (HIA), box 11, folder 1.
31
. G. A. Hill,
Dreaded Hour
, pp. 98 and 102–3.
32
. ‘Peace with Honour’:
Daily Mail
, 28 March 1919.
33
.
The Bullitt Mission to Russia: Testimony before the Committee on Foreign
Relations
, p. 66.
34
. Board meeting, n.d. (early 1919?), p. 8: P. N. Vrangel Collection (HIA), box 28, folder 33.
35
. D. S. Foglesong,
America’s Secret War against Bolshevism
, pp. 69–71.
36
. D. R. Francis,
Russia from the American Embassy, April 1916–November 1918
, pp. 310–11.
37
.
Ibid
., pp. 309–10.
38
. H. Hoover,
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
, pp. 118–19.
39
.
Ibid
., pp. 121–3.
40
. ‘Diary of P. V. Vologodsky as Prime Minister of Admiral Kolchak’s Cabinet’, 17 May 1919: Pëtr Vasil’evich Vologodskii Papers (HIA).
41
. W. S. Churchill,
The World Crisis
, vol. 4:
The Aftermath
, pp. 179–80.
42
. T. T. C. Gregory, ‘Stemming the Red Tide’ (typescript, 1919), p. 70: T. T. C. Gregory Papers (HIA), box 1.
43
.
Ibid
.
44
. W. C. Bullitt to President Wilson, 17 May 1919: Robert Lansing Papers (HIA).
45
. R. Lansing, diary entry for 19 May 1919: Robert Lansing Papers (HIA); W. C. Bullitt to R. Lansing, 17 May 1919:
ibid.
46
. H. Hoover,
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
, pp. 245–52.

19. European Revolution

 

1
. A. Ransome,
Russia in 1919
, p. 225. The comment was made in March 1919.
2
.
Ibid
., pp. 35–6.
3
. A. J. Fardon to Mrs E. Garratt, 5 March 1919: National Archives, KV/2/1903.
4
. A. Ransome,
Russia in 1919
, p. 226.
5
.
Ibid
., p. 227.
6
. J. Sadoul,
Notes sur la révolution bolchévique, octobre 1917–janvier 1919
, p. 450: letter to J. Longuet, 17 January 1918.
7
. A. Dunois, unpublished typescript introduction (May 1941) to an edition of Sadoul’s letters, pp. 3–4: Jacques Sadoul Papers (HIA); L. Naudeau,
En
prison sous la terreur russe
, pp. 231.
8
. J. Cornwell,
Hitler’s Pope: The Secret History of Pius XII
, p. 75.
9
. R. Leviné-Meyer,
Leviné the Spartacist: The Life and Times of the Socialist Revolutionary Leader of the German Spartacists and Head of the Ill-Starred Munich Republic of 1919
, p. 153.
10
. T. T. C. Gregory Papers (HIA), box 2: Hungarian Political Dossier, vol. 1: Alonzo Taylor to Herbert Hoover, 26 March 1919.
11
. Memorandum by Ferenc Julier, former Commander of the General Staff of the Red Army; it was prepared for the Hoover Library in 1933 and translated into English: Hungarian Subject Collection (HIA), pp. 3–4 and 14.
12
. Memorandum by Ferenc Julier, p. 3.
13
. H. James (Inter-Allied Danube River Commission), ‘Report on Trip to German-Austria and Czecho-Slovakia’ (n.d.), pp. 1 and 4: Henry James Papers (HIA), folder 1.
14
. G. A. Hill,
Dreaded Hour
, p. 89.
15
. H. James, ‘A Solution of the Hungarian Question’ (no date given but some time in 1919 before August): Henry James Papers (HIA), folder 2.
16
. Telegrams of 2 February and 19 April 1919: RGASPI, f. 17, op. 109, d. 46, pp. 1–2.
17
. T. T. C. Gregory, ‘Beating Back Bolshevism’ (typescript, possibly 1920), p. 6: T. T. C. Gregory Papers (HIA), box 1; A. Taylor to H. C. Hoover, 26 March 1919.
18
.
Ibid
.: Philip Marshall Brown to Archibald Cary Coolidge, 17 April 1919.
19
. T. T. C. Gregory to H. C. Hoover, 22 June 1918: T. T. C. Gregory Papers (HIA), box 1.
20
. T. T. C. Gregory, ‘Beating Back Bolshevism’ [n.p., n.d.]:
ibid.
21
. Trotsky’s message to Kh. G. Rakovski, N. I. Podvoiski and V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, 18 April 1919: RGASPI, f. 325, op. 1, d. 404, p. 86; Lenin’s telegram to S. I. Aralov and J. Vacietis, 21 April 1919,
ibid
., p. 92; telegram of J. Vacietis and S. I. Aralov to V. A. Antonov-Ovseenko, 23 April 1919,
ibid
., op. 109, 46, pp. 3–5.
22
. Lt Col. W. B. Causey to H. Hoover, 8 August 1919: Gibbes Lykes Papers (HIA), box 1.
23
. [James A.?] Logan to the ARA in Paris, 13 August 1919:
ibid.
24
. Inter-Allied Military Mission (Budapest) to the Supreme Council of the Peace Conference, 19 August 1919: Gibbes Lykes Papers (HIA), box 1.
25
. H. Hoover,
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
, p. 118.
26
. See his comments in H. Hoover,
Address of Secretary Hoover before the
Chamber of Commerce of the United States. Eleventh Annual Meeting. New York, N.Y., May 8 1923
, p. 7.
27
. H. Hoover,
The World Economic Situation: Address of Herbert Hoover before the San Francisco Commercial Club, October 9, 1919
, p. 19.
28
. T. T. C. Gregory, ‘Stemming the Red Tide’ (n.p., 1919), pp. 66–7.
29
. H. Hoover,
The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson
, pp. 164–5; J. M. Keynes,
The Economic Consequences of the Peace
, p. 274.
30
. K. Radek, ‘Noyabr’. (Stranichka iz vospominanii)’,
Krasnaya nov’
, no. 10 (1926), pp. 163–4.
31
.
Ibid
., pp. 164–5 and 168.
32
.
Ibid.
, pp. 166–8.
33
.
Ibid.
, p. 168.
34
. A. Venturi,
Rivoluzionari russi in Italia, 1917–1921
, pp. 205–7.

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