As they lose their grip, human sympathy has its natural play between nations, and civilization has a chance.

With any Emperor of Germany left the war will have been half in vain.
If we (the U.S.A.) cultivate the manly qualities and throw off our cranks and read our own history and be true to our traditions and blood and get some political vigour; then if we emancipate ourselves from the isolation theory and from the landlubber theory--get into the world and build ships, ships, ships, ships, and run them to the ends of the seas, we can dominate the world in trade and in political thought.
You know I have moments when it occurs to me that perhaps I'd better give whatever working years I may have to telling this story--the story of the larger meaning of the war.

There's no bigger theme--never was one so big.
Affectionately, W.H.P.
On April 1st, the day before President Wilson made his great address before Congress requesting that body to declare the existence of a state of war with Germany, Page committed to paper a few paragraphs which summed up his final judgment of President Wilson's foreign policy for the preceding two and a half years.
Embassy of the United States of America, April 1, 1917.
In these last days, before the United States is forced into war--by the people's insistence--the preceding course of events becomes even clearer than it was before; and it has been as clear all the time as the nose on a man's face.
The President began by refusing to understand the meaning of the war.

To him it seemed a quarrel to settle economic rivalries between Germany and England.

He said to me last September[53] that there were many causes why Germany went to war.