ROOSEVELT: The Archbishop of York goes to the United States to make some observations of us and of our ways and to deliver addresses--on the invitation of some one of our church organizations; a fortunate event for us and, I have ventured to tell him, for him also.
During his brief stay in our country, I wish him to make your acquaintance, and I have given him a card of introduction to you, and thus I humbly serve you both.
The Archbishop is a man and a brother, a humble, learned, earnest, companionable fellow, with most charming manners and an attractive personality, a good friend of mine, which argues much for him and (I think) implies also something in my behalf.

You will enjoy him.
I am, dear Mr.Roosevelt, Sincerely yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
Greatly as Page loved England he never ceased to preach his Americanism.
That he preferred his own country to any other and that he believed that it was its greatest destiny to teach its institutions to the rest of the world, Page's letters show; yet this was with him no cheap spread-eagleism; it was a definite philosophy which the Ambassador had completely thought out.

He never hesitated to express his democratic opinions in any company, and only once or twice were there any signs that these ideas jarred a little in certain strongholds of conservatism.
Even in the darkest period of American neutrality Page's faith in the American people remained complete.

After this country had entered the war and the apparent slowness of the Washington Administration had raised certain questionings, Page never doubted that the people themselves, however irresolute and lukewarm their representatives might be, would force the issue to its only logical end.

Even so friendly a man as Mr.Balfour once voiced a popular apprehension that the United States might not get into the war with all its strength or might withdraw prematurely.