{"product_id":"2940013428614","title":"THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF WALTER H. PAGE VOLUME II","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eVOLUME II\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     CHAPTER                                         PAGE\u003cbr\u003e       XIV. THE \"LUSITANIA\" AND AFTER                   1\u003cbr\u003e        XV. THE AMBASSADOR AND THE LAWYERS             53\u003cbr\u003e       XVI. DARK DAYS FOR THE ALLIES                   81\u003cbr\u003e      XVII. CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND, 1915                103\u003cbr\u003e     XVIII. A PERPLEXED AMBASSADOR                    128\u003cbr\u003e       XIX. WASHINGTON IN THE SUMMER OF 1916          148\u003cbr\u003e        XX. \"PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY\"                   189\u003cbr\u003e       XXI. THE UNITED STATES AT WAR                  215\u003cbr\u003e      XXII. THE BALFOUR MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES  248\u003cbr\u003e     XXIII. PAGE--THE MAN                             295\u003cbr\u003e      XXIV. A RESPITE AT ST. IVES                     321\u003cbr\u003e       XXV. GETTING THE AMERICAN TROOPS TO FRANCE     349\u003cbr\u003e      XXVI. LAST DAYS IN ENGLAND                      374\u003cbr\u003e     XXVII. THE END                                   404\u003cbr\u003e            APPENDIX                                  407\u003cbr\u003e            INDEX                                     425\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Sir Edward Grey                       _Frontispiece_\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                                              FACING PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Col. Edward M. House. From a painting by P.A.\u003cbr\u003e     Laszlo                                            88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister\u003cbr\u003e     of Great Britain, 1908-1916                       89\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Herbert C. Hoover, in 1914                       104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     A facsimile page from the Ambassador's letter of\u003cbr\u003e     November 24, 1916, resigning his Ambassadorship  105\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Walter H. Page, at the time of America's entry into\u003cbr\u003e     the war, April, 1917                             216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Resolution passed by the two Houses of Parliament,\u003cbr\u003e     April 18, 1917, on America's entry into the war  217\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister\u003cbr\u003e     of Great Britain, 1916--                         232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     The Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour (now the Earl of\u003cbr\u003e     Balfour), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\u003cbr\u003e     1916-1919                                        233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, 1916-1918,\u003cbr\u003e     Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,\u003cbr\u003e     1918                                             344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of\u003cbr\u003e     the American Expeditionary Force in the Great\u003cbr\u003e     War                                              345\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     Admiral William Sowden Sims, Commander of\u003cbr\u003e     American Naval Forces operating in European\u003cbr\u003e     waters during the Great War                      360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     A silver model of the _Mayflower_, the farewell gift\u003cbr\u003e     of the Plymouth Council to Mr. Page              361\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLIFE AND LETTERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWALTER H. PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LIFE AND LETTERS OF\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWALTER H. PAGE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE \"LUSITANIA\"--AND AFTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe news of the _Lusitania_ was received at the American Embassy at four\u003cbr\u003eo'clock on the afternoon of May 7, 1915. At that time preparations were\u003cbr\u003eunder way for a dinner in honour of Colonel and Mrs. House; the first\u003cbr\u003e_Lusitania_ announcement declared that only the ship itself had been\u003cbr\u003edestroyed and that all the passengers and members of the crew had been\u003cbr\u003esaved; there was, therefore, no good reason for abandoning this dinner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt about seven o'clock, the Ambassador came home; his manner showed that\u003cbr\u003esomething extraordinary had taken place; there were no outward signs of\u003cbr\u003eemotion, but he was very serious. The first news, he now informed Mrs.\u003cbr\u003ePage, had been a mistake; more than one thousand men, women, and\u003cbr\u003echildren had lost their lives, and more than one hundred of these were\u003cbr\u003eAmerican citizens. It was too late to postpone the dinner but that\u003cbr\u003eaffair was one of the most tragic in the social history of London. The\u003cbr\u003eAmbassador was constantly receiving bulletins from his Chancery, and\u003cbr\u003ethese, as quickly as they were received, he read to his guests. His\u003cbr\u003evoice was quiet and subdued; there were no indications of excitement in\u003cbr\u003ehis manner or in that of his friends, and hardly of suppressed emotion.\u003cbr\u003eThe atmosphere was rather that of dumb stupefaction. The news seemed to\u003cbr\u003ehave dulled everyone's capacity for thought and even for feeling. 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