But I do mean that the direction of events for the next fifty or one hundred years has now been determined.
[Illustration: Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, 1916-18, Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1918] [Illustration: General John J.Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of the American Expeditionary Force in the Great War] * * * * * Yet Page found one stolid opposition to his attempts to establish the friendliest relations between the two peoples.

That offish attitude of the Washington Administration, to which reference has already been made, did not soften with the progress of events.

Another experience now again brought out President Wilson's coldness toward his allies.

About this time many rather queer Americans--some of the "international" breed--were coming to England on more or less official missions.

Page was somewhat humiliated by these excursions; he knew that his country possessed an almost unlimited supply of vivid speakers, filled with zeal for the allied cause, whose influence, if they could be induced to cross the Atlantic, would put new spirit into the British.