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<P ALIGN=CENTER><A NAME="TC"></A><FONT SIZE="+2">CONTENTS</FONT>
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<br><br><CENTER>VOLUME I</TD>
 
<CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Times">I A RECONSTRUCTION BOYHOOD</FONT></CENTER><BR><BR>
 
 
<CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Times">II JOURNALISM</FONT></CENTER>


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      <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Times"><A HREF="Page01.htm">I</A></FONT></TD>
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      BOYHOOD</FONT></TD>
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      <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Times"><A HREF="Page01.htm#ch2">II</A></FONT></TD>
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       <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT SIZE="+1" FACE="Times"><A HREF="Page02.htm">III</A></FONT></TD>  
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Revision as of 22:27, 16 November 2008

THE

LIFE AND LETTERS OF

WALTER H. PAGE


BY


BURTON J. HENDRICK


GARDEN CITY. NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY


1923



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PREFATORY NOTE

Among the many who have assisted in the preparation of this Biography especial acknowledgment is made to 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 reenforcing 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.



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CONTENTS



VOLUME I


I A RECONSTRUCTION BOYHOOD



II JOURNALISM

<A HREF="Page02.htm">III</A> "THE FORGOTTEN MAN"

<A HREF="Page02.htm#ch4">IV</A> THE WILSONIAN ERA BEGINS

<A HREF="Page03.htm">V</A> ENGLAND BEFORE THE WAR

<A HREF="Page04.htm">VI</A> "POLICY" AND "PRINCIPLE" IN MEXICO

<A HREF="Page04.htm#ch7">VII</A> PERSONALITIES OF THE MEXICAN PROBLEM

<A HREF="Page05.htm">VIII</A> HONOUR AND DISHONOUR IN PANAMA

<A HREF="Page05.htm#ch9">IX</A> AMERICA TRIES TO PREVENT THE EUROPEAN WAR

<A HREF="Page06.htm">X</A> THE GRAND SMASH

<A HREF="Page06.htm#ch11">XI</A> ENGLAND UNDER THE STRESS OF WAR

<A HREF="Page07.htm">XII</A> "WAGING NEUTRALITY".

<A HREF="Page08.htm">XIII</A> GERMANY'S FIRST PEACE DRIVES.   ...........................VOLUME II

<A HREF="Page09.htm">XIV</A> THE "LUSITANIA" AND AFTER

<A HREF="Page10.htm">XV</A> THE AMBASSADOR AND THE LAWYERS

<A HREF="Page10.htm#ch16">XVI</A> DARK DAYS FOR THE ALLIES

<A HREF="Page11.htm">XVII</A> CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND, 1915

<A HREF="Page11.htm#ch18">XVIII</A> A PERPLEXED AMBASSADOR

<A HREF="Page12.htm">XIX</A> WASHINGTON IN THE SUMMER OF 1916

<A HREF="Page13.htm">XX</A> "PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY"

<A HREF="Page13.htm#ch21">XXI</A> THE UNITED STATES AT WAR

<A HREF="Page14.htm">XXII</A> THE BALFOUR MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES

<A HREF="Page15.htm">XXIII</A> PAGE---THE MAN

<A HREF="Page15.htm#ch24">XXIV</A> A RESPITE AT ST. IVES

<A HREF="Page16.htm">XXV</A> GETTING THE AMERICAN TROOPS TO FRANCE

<A HREF="Page16.htm#ch26">XXVI</A> LAST DAYS IN ENGLAND

<A HREF="Page17.htm">XXVII</A> THE END <A HREF="Page17.htm#app"> APP</A> APPENDIX

<A HREF="Pagepix.htm">LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS</A>




<IMG SRC="thumbnails/2b.gif" WIDTH="25" HEIGHT="24" ALIGN="MIDDLE" BORDER="0" ><A HREF="Page01.htm">Chapter One</A>