The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER PAGE XIV. THE "LUSITANIA" AND AFTER 1 XV. THE AMBASSADOR AND THE LAWYERS 53 XVI. DARK DAYS FOR THE ALLIES 81 XVII. CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND, 1915 103 XVIII. A PERPLEXED AMBA...

The news of the _Lusitania_ was received at the American Embassy at four o'clock on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. At that time preparations were under way for a dinner in honour...

References in the foregoing letters show that Page was still having his troubles over the blockade. In the latter part of 1915, indeed, the negotiations with Sir Edward Grey on...

There's a distinct wave of depression here--perhaps I'd better say a period of setbacks has come. So far as we can find out only the Germans are doing anything in the war on lan...

I hear you are stroking down the Tammany tiger--an easier job than I have with the British lion. You can find out exactly who your tiger is, you know the house he lives in, the...

The beginning of the new year saw no improvement in German-American relations. Germany and Austria continued to violate the pledge given by Bernstorff after the sinking of the _...

In July Page received a cablegram summoning him to Washington. This message did not explain why his presence was desired, nor on this point was Page ever definitely enlightened,...

"Of one thing I am sure," Page wrote to his wife from Washington, while waiting to see President Wilson. "We wish to come home March 4th at midnight and to go about our proper b...

The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Germany on February 3, 1917. The occasion was a memorable one in the American Embassy in London, not unrelieved by a touch...

Page now took up a subject which had been near his heart for a long time. He believed that one of the most serious causes of Anglo-American misunderstanding was the fact that th...

The entrance of America into the war, followed by the successful promotion of the Balfour visit, brought a period of quiet into Page's life. These events represented for him a p...

... By far the most important peace plan or utterance is the President's extraordinary answer to the Pope[64]. His flat and convincing refusal to take the word of the present ru...

It has not been settled--and cannot be, I fancy, until the Peace Conference--precisely what the British will do with Palestine, but I have what I think is a correct idea of thei...

In spite of the encouraging tone of the foregoing letters, everything was not well with Page. All through the winter of 1917-1918 his associates at the Embassy had noticed a cha...

Page came home only to die. In fact, at one time it seemed improbable that he would live to reach the United States. The voyage of the _Olympic_, on which he sailed, was literal...