Accept my congratulations that you have no reason to fear a permanent impairment of your health and that you can resign knowing that you have performed your difficult duties with distinguished success.
WOODROW WILSON.
The news of Page's resignation inspired tributes from the British press and from British public men such as have been bestowed upon few Americans.

The London _Times_ headed its leader "A Great Ambassador" and this note was echoed in all sections of Great Britain.

The part of Page's career which Englishmen chiefly recalled was his attitude during the period of neutrality.

This, the newspapers declared, was Page's great contribution to the cause.

The fact that it had had such far-reaching influences on history was the one especially insisted on.
His conciliatory and skillful behaviour had kept the United States and Great Britain friends at a time when a less tactful ambassador might easily have made them enemies; the result was that, when the time came, the United States could join forces against the common enemy, with results that were then daily unfolding on the battlefields of France.