The present note was one of this kind; but Page, because of his friendly relations with Grey, decided to transmit the communication in its original shape.
Sir Edward glanced over the document, looked up, and remarked, with a twinkle in his eye,-- "This reads as though they thought that they are still talking to George the Third." The roar of laughter that followed was something quite unprecedented amid the thick and dignified walls of the Foreign Office.
One of Page's most delicious moments came, however, after the Ministry of Blockade had been formed, with Lord Robert Cecil in charge.

Lord Robert was high minded and conciliatory, but his knowledge of American history was evidently not without its lapses.

One day, in discussing the ill-feeling aroused in the United States by the seizure of American cargoes, Page remarked banteringly: "You must not forget the Boston Tea Party, Lord Robert." The Englishman looked up, rather puzzled.
"But you must remember, Mr.Page, that I have never been in Boston.

I have never attended a tea party there." It has been said that the tact and good sense of Page and Grey, working sympathetically for the same end, avoided many an impending crisis.

The trouble caused early in 1915 by the ship _Dacia_ and the way in which the difficulty was solved, perhaps illustrate the value of this cooeperation at its best.