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The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II

CHAPTER XXI
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Mr.Balfour had a long list of subjects.

Could we help in (1)--( 2)--( 3) ?--Every once in a while he stopped his enumeration of subjects long enough to tell me how the action of the United States had moved him.
To Lord Robert I said: "I pray you, give the Black List a decent burial: It's dead now, but through no act of yours.

It insulted every American because you did not see that it was insulting: that's the discouraging fact to me." He thanked me earnestly.

He'll think about that.
II These jottings give only a faint impression of the change which the American action wrought in Page.

The strain which he had undergone for twenty-nine months had been intense; it had had the most unfortunate effect upon his health; and the sudden lifting might have produced that reaction for the worse which is not unusual after critical experiences of this kind.


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