This not only reviewed the common history of the two nations for three hundred years, and suggested a programme for making the bonds tighter yet, but it brought the British public practical assurances as to America's intentions in the conflict.

Up to that time there had been much vagueness and doubt; no official voice had spoken the clear word for the United States; the British public did not know what to expect from their kinsmen overseas.

But after Page's Plymouth speech the people of Great Britain looked forward with complete confidence to the cooeperation of the two countries and to the inevitable triumph of this cooeperation.
_To Arthur W.Page_ Knebworth House, Knebworth, August 11, 1917.
Dear Arthur: First of all, these three years have made me tired.

I suppose there's no doubt about that, if there were any scientific way of measuring it.

While of course the strain now is nothing like what it was during the days of neutrality, there's yet some strain.
I went down to Plymouth to make a speech on the anniversary of the beginning of the war--went to tell them in the west of England something about relations with the United States and something about what the United States is doing in the war.