He thinks the contest of the future will be between the Eastern and Western civilizations.
Your friend always, E.M.

House.
By January 4, 1914, the House-Wilson plan had thus grown into an Anglo-American-German "pact," to deal not only with "disarmament, but other matters of equal importance to themselves and to the world at large." Page's response to this idea was consistent and characteristic.
He had no faith in Germany and believed that the existence of Kaiserism was incompatible with the extension of the democratic ideal.

Even at this early time--eight months before the outbreak of the World War--he had no enthusiasm for anything in the nature of an alliance, or a "pact," that included Germany as an equal partner.

He did, however, have great faith in the cooeperation of the English-speaking peoples as a force that would make for permanent peace and international justice.

In his reply to Colonel House, therefore, Page fell back at once upon his favourite plan for an understanding between the United States, Great Britain, and the British colonies.