But the conventional type of Ambassador would not be worth his salt to represent the United States here now, when they are eager to work with us for the peace of the world, if they are convinced of our honour and right-mindedness and the genuineness of our friendship.
I talked this over with Sir Edward Grey the other day, and after telling me that I need fear no trouble at this end of the line, he told me how severely he is now criticized by a "certain element" for "bowing too low to the Americans." We then each bowed low to the other.

The yellow press and Chamberlain would give a year's growth for a photograph of us in that posture! I am infinitely obliged to you for your kind understanding and your toleration of my errors.
Yours always heartily, WALTER H.PAGE.
To the President.
P.S.The serious part of the speech--made to convince the financial people, who are restive about Mexico, that we do not mean to forbid legitimate investments in Central America--has had a good effect here.

I have received the thanks of many important men.
W.H.P.
_From the President_ The White House, Washington, March 25, 1914.
MY DEAR PAGE: Thank you for your little note of March thirteenth[52].

You may be sure that none of us who knew you or read the speech felt anything but admiration for it.

It is very astonishing to me how some Democrats in the Senate themselves bring these artificial difficulties on the Administration, and it distresses me not a little.