Completely unrelated to my above comment: "Bullitt spent the rest of his life writing and speaking, most often about the dangers of Communism — like many young

Completely unrelated to my above comment: "Bullitt spent the rest of his life writing and speaking, most often about the dangers of Communism — like many young leftists, he took a hard rightward turn later in life." – I guess, having witnessed the promises of an early, Leninist USSR, as of 1919, having promoted it and fought for it on the expense of his career, and confronting this with the Stalinist reality of the mid-1930s (Bullitt became US ambassador to the USSR in 1933, witnessing the purges of 1933 and 1934, and probably the beginning of the Great Purge starting in 1936) must have been a harsh experience.