Chapter I: Front Matter

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE

BY BURTON J. HENDRICK

VOLUME I

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1922

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N.Y.

_First Edition after the printing of 377 de luxe copies_

_PREFATORY NOTE_

_Among the many who have assisted in the preparation of this Biography especial acknowledgment is made to Mr. Irwin Laughlin, First Secretary and Counsellor of the London Embassy under Mr. Page. Mr. Page's papers show the high regard which he entertained for Mr. Laughlin's abilities and character, and the author similarly has found Mr. Laughlin's assistance indispensable. Mr. Laughlin has had the goodness to read the manuscript and make numerous suggestions, all for the purpose of reënforcing the accuracy of the narrative. The author gratefully remembers many long conversations with Viscount Grey of Fallodon, in which Anglo-American relations from 1913 to 1916 were exhaustively canvassed and many side-lights thrown upon Mr. Page's conduct of his difficult and delicate duties. The British Foreign Office most courteously gave the writer permission to examine a large number of documents in its archives bearing upon Mr. Page's ambassadorship and consented to the publication of several of the most important._

B.J.H.

CONTENTS

VOLUME I

CHAPTER PAGE
I. A RECONSTRUCTION BOYHOOD 1
II. JOURNALISM 32
III. "THE FORGOTTEN MAN" 64
IV. THE WILSONIAN ERA BEGINS 102
V. ENGLAND BEFORE THE WAR 132
VI. "POLICY" AND "PRINCIPLE" IN MEXICO 175
VII. PERSONALITIES OF THE MEXICAN PROBLEM 215
VIII. HONOUR AND DISHONOUR IN PANAMA 232
IX. AMERICA TRIES TO PREVENT THE EUROPEAN WAR 270
X. THE GRAND SMASH 301
XI. ENGLAND UNDER THE STRESS OF WAR 327
XII. "WAGING NEUTRALITY" 357
XIII. GERMANY'S FIRST PEACE DRIVES 398

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Walter H. Page _Frontispiece_

Allison Francis Page (1824-1899), father of Walter H. Page 20

Catherine Raboteau Page (1831-1897), mother of Walter H. Page 21

Walter H. Page in 1876, when he was a Fellow of Johns Hopkins
University, Baltimore, Md. 36

Basil L. Gildersleeve, Professor of Greek, Johns Hopkins
University, 1876-1915 37

Walter H. Page (1899) from a photograph taken when he was
editor of the _Atlantic Monthly_ 100

Dr. Wallace Buttrick, President of the General Education Board 101

Charles D. McIver, of Greensboro, North Carolina, a leader in
the cause of Southern Education 116

Woodrow Wilson in 1912 117

Walter H. Page, from a photograph taken a few years before he
became American Ambassador to Great Britain 292

The British Foreign Office, Downing Street 293

No. 6 Grosvenor Square, the American Embassy under Mr. Page 308

Irwin Laughlin, Secretary of the American Embassy at London,
1912-1917, Counsellor 1916-1919 309

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THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE