This was in the early period of our participation.
"Who is going to stop the American people and how ?" Page quickly replied.

"I think that was a good answer," he said, as he looked back at the episode in the summer of 1918, when hundreds of thousands of Americans were landing in France every month.

A scrap of his writing records a discussion at a dinner party on this question: "If you could have a month in any time and any country, what time and what country would you choose ?" The majority voted for England in the time of Elizabeth, but Page's preference was for Athens in the days of Pericles.
Then came a far more interesting debate: "If you could spend a second lifetime when and where would you choose to spend it ?" On this Page had not a moment's hesitation: "In the future and in the U.S.A.!" and he upheld his point with such persuasiveness that he carried the whole gathering with him.

His love of anything suggesting America came out on all occasions.

One of his English hostesses once captivated him by serving corn bread at a luncheon.