[The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Burton J. Hendrick]@TWC D-Link bookThe Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II CHAPTER XIX 65/77
You will know what use to make of it.
It is meant as an official communication in everything but the usual form from which I have departed for reasons I need not explain further. I look forward eagerly to your return, Very sincerely yours, IRWIN LAUGHLIN. Page waited five weeks before he succeeded in obtaining his interview with Mr.Wilson. _To the President_ The New Willard, Washington, D.C. Thursday, September 21, 1916. DEAR MR.
PRESIDENT: While I am waiting for a convenient time to come when you will see me for a conference and report, I send you notes on conversations with Lord Grey and Lord Bryce[47].
They are, in effect, though of course not in form, messages to you. The situation between our government and Great Britain seems to me most alarming; and (let me add) easily removable, if I can get the ear of anybody in authority.
But I find here only an atmosphere of suspicion--unwarranted by facts and easily dissipated by straight and simple friendly methods.
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