It was suspected--I am sure--that the German influence in Washington had unwittingly got influence over the Department.

The atmosphere (toward me) is as different now from what it was a week ago as Arizona sunshine is from a London fog, as much as to say, 'After all, perhaps, you don't _mean_ to try to force us to play into the hands of our enemies!'" III And so this crisis was passed; it was the first great service that Page had rendered the cause of the Allies and his own country.

Yet shipping difficulties had their more agreeable aspects.

Had it not been for the fact that both Page and Grey had an understanding sense of humour, neutrality would have proved a more difficult path than it actually was.
Even amid the tragic problems with which these two men were dealing there was not lacking an occasional moment's relaxation into the lighter aspect of things.

One of the curious memorials preserved in the British Foreign Office is the cancelled $15,000,000 check with which Great Britain paid the _Alabama_ claims.