In this work, as in everything that would help mankind on its weary way to a more efficient and more democratic civilization, Page regarded the United States, Great Britain, and the British Dominions as inevitable partners.
Anything that would bring these two nations into a closer cooeperation he looked upon as a step making for human advancement.

He believed that any opportunity of sweeping away misconceptions and prejudices and of impressing upon the two peoples their common mission should be eagerly seized by the statesmen of the two countries.

And circumstances at this particular moment, Page believed, presented a large opportunity of this kind.

It is one of the minor ironies of modern history that the United States and Great Britain should have selected 1914 as a year for a great peace celebration.

That year marked the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Ghent, which ended the War of 1812, and in 1913 comprehensive plans had already been formed for observing this impressive centennial.