He sees it merely as a struggle between Germany and the Allies; and inferentially he is perfectly willing the Kaiser should remain in power.

He is of course a patriotic man and a man of great cultivation.

But he doesn't see the deeper meaning of the conflict.

Add to this defect of understanding, a long period of bad health and a lasting depression because of the loss of his son, and his call to the war-weary ceases to be a surprise.
I am, dear Mr.President, Sincerely yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
_To Arthur W.Page_ American Embassy, London, December 23, 1917.
DEAR ARTHUR: I sent you a Christmas cable yesterday for everybody.

That's about all I can send in these days of slow mail and restricted shipping and enormously high prices; and you gave all the girls each $100 for me, for the babies and themselves?
That'll show 'em that at least we haven't forgotten them.