To me it is all infinitely sad.

This dreadful war is a logical outcome of their condition, their thought, their backwardness.

I think I shall never care to see the continent again, which of course is committing suicide and bankruptcy.

When my natural term of service is done here, I shall go home with more joy than you can imagine.

That's the only home for a man who wishes his horizon to continue to grow wider.
All this for you and me only--nobody else.
Heartily yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
Probably Page thought that this statement of the case--and it was certainly a masterly statement--would end any attempt to get what he regarded as an unsatisfactory and dangerous peace.