Mr. Jenner. Refreshing your recollection from having read it, you would like to make a statement to the Commission and you may proceed to do so.
Mrs. Paine. It doesn't refresh me enough. I could say this. That when I received 409-B, her letter, I read it through. I glanced at 409, her corrected—my letter which she had corrected, and at the note at the back which began, "You write well" and assumed this to be commentary on my letter; it was not until I sat down nearly a month later to write a proper reply to her, I read this through more carefully and found in the middle of the paragraph discussing my writing a comment by her saying, "Very likely I will have to go back to Russia after all."
Mr. Jenner. For the purpose of the record there appears the red crayon to which I earlier drew your attention on the back of page 3.
Would you read that entire notation of hers so that the Commission may now know that to which you are now directing your attention?
Mrs. Paine. In the back of my letter she writes in red pencil, "You write well, when will I write that way in English. I think never. Very likely I will have to go back to Russia after all. A pity."
Mr. Dulles. What was the last?
Mrs. Paine. "A pity."
Mr. Jenner. I take it when you first read that notation on the back of the third page of the letter you had not noticed the sentence, "Very likely I will have to go to Russia after all. A pity."
Mrs. Paine. Yes.
Mr. Jenner. Would you proceed with your comment?