Produced by Rick Niles, Charlie Kirschner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: Sir Edward Grey (now Viscount Grey of Fallodon), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1905-1916] 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