HOUSE.
* * * * * It is apparent from Page's letters that the suggestion now contained in Colonel House's communication would receive a friendly hearing.

The idea that Colonel House suggested was merely the initial stage of a plan which soon took on more ambitious proportions.

At the time of Sir William Tyrrell's American visit, the Winston Churchill proposal for a naval holiday was being actively discussed by the British and the American press.

In one form or another it had been figuring in the news for nearly two years.

Viscount Haldane, in the course of his famous visit to Berlin in February, 1912, had attempted to reach some understanding with the German Government on the limitation of the German and the British fleets.