We can never have an alert and energetic and powerful service until men can trust the Department and until they can get necessary information from it.

I wrote the President that of course I'd go on till the war ended and all the questions growing out of it were settled, and that then he must excuse me, if I must continue to be exposed to this danger and humiliation.

In the meantime, I shall send all my confidential matter in private letters to him." * * * * * Page did not regard Mr.Bryan's opinions and attitudes as a joke: to him they were a serious matter and, in his eyes, Bryan was most interesting as a national menace.

He regarded the Secretary as the extreme expression of an irrational sentimentalism that was in danger of undermining the American character, especially as the kind of thought he represented was manifest in many phases of American life.

In a moment of exasperation, Page gave expression to this feeling in a letter to his son: _To Arthur W.Page_ London, June 6, 1915.
DEAR ARTHUR: ...