Senator BRANDEGEE. Did Mr. Steffens go to Russia with you?
Mr. BULLITT. He did.
The CHAIRMAN. He held no official position?
Mr. BULLITT. No.
Senator BRANDEGEE. Who advised him to go?
Mr. BULLITT. I did.
Senator BRANDEGEE. Is he in the country now?
Mr. BULLITT. I do not believe so. I believe he is still in Europe.
REPORT OF LINCOLN STEFFENS
(By order of the committee the report of Lincoln Steffens referred to
is here printed in full in the record, as follows:)
REPORT OF LINCOLN STEFFENS
APRIL 2, 1919.
Politically, Russia has reached a state of equilibrium;
internally; for the present at least.
I think the revolution there is ended; that it has run its
course. There will be changes. There may be advances; there
will surely be reactions, but these will be regular, I
think; political and economic, but parliamentary, A new
center of gravity seems to have been found.
Certainly, the destructive phase of the revolution in Russia
is over. Constructive work has begun.
We saw this everywhere. And we saw order, and though we
inquired for them, we heard of no disorders. Prohibition is
universal and absolute. Robberies have been reduced in
Petrograd below normal of large cities. Warned against
danger before we went in, we felt safe.
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