Chapter I: Front Matter

THE
LIFE AND LETTERS OF
WALTER H. PAGE

BY

BURTON J. HENDRICK

VOLUME
II

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1924

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

CONTENTS

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 AMBASSADOR 128
XIX. WASHINGTON IN THE SUMMER OF 1916 148
XX. "PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY" 189
XXI. THE UNITED STATES AT WAR 215
XXII. THE BALFOUR MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES 248
XXIII. PAGE--THE MAN 295
XXIV. A RESPITE AT ST. IVES 321
XXV. GETTING THE AMERICAN TROOPS TO FRANCE 349
XXVI. LAST DAYS IN ENGLAND 374
XXVII. THE END 404
APPENDIX 407
INDEX 425

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Sir Edward Grey _Frontispiece_

FACING PAGE

Col. Edward M. House. From a painting by P.A.
Laszlo 88

The Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister
of Great Britain, 1908-1916 89

Herbert C. Hoover, in 1914 104

A facsimile page from the Ambassador's letter of
November 24, 1916, resigning his Ambassadorship 105

Walter H. Page, at the time of America's entry into
the war, April, 1917 216

Resolution passed by the two Houses of Parliament,
April 18, 1917, on America's entry into the war 217

The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister
of Great Britain, 1916-- 232

The Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour (now the Earl of
Balfour), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
1916-1919 233

Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, 1916-1918,
Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
1918 344

General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of
the American Expeditionary Force in the Great
War 345

Admiral William Sowden Sims, Commander of
American Naval Forces operating in European
waters during the Great War 360

A silver model of the _Mayflower_, the farewell gift
of the Plymouth Council to Mr. Page 361

THE

LIFE AND LETTERS

OF

WALTER H. PAGE

THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF

WALTER H. PAGE