They think in terms of races here, and we are of their race, and we shall become the strongest and the happiest branch of it.
While we play the game with them, we shall play it better by playing it under their long-wrought-out rules of courtesy in everyday affairs.
We shall play it better, too, if our Government play it quietly--except when the subject demands publicity.

I have heard that in past years the foreign representatives of our Government have reported too few things and much too meagrely.

I have heard since I have been here that these representatives become timid because Washington has for many a year conducted its foreign business too much in the newspapers; and the foreign governments themselves are always afraid of this.
Meantime I hardly need tell you of my appreciation of such a chance to make so interesting a study and to enjoy so greatly the most interesting experience, I really believe, in the whole world.

I only hope that in time I may see how to shape the constant progression of incidents into a constructive course of events; for we are soon coming into a time of big changes.
Most heartily yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
_To David F.Houston_[28] American Embassy, London [undated].
DEAR HOUSTON: You're doing the bigger job: as the world now is, there is no other job so big as yours or so well worth doing; but I'm having more fun.

I'm having more fun than anybody else anywhere.