The other morning a group of American nurses gathered with the usual crowd in front of Buckingham Palace while the Guards band played inside the gates.

Man after man as they passed them and saw their uniforms lifted their hats." [Illustration: The Rt.Hon.David Lloyd George, Chancellor of the Exchequer, 1908-1915, Minister of Munitions, 1915-1916, Prime Minister of Great Britain, 1916-1922] [Illustration: The Rt.Hon.Arthur James Balfour (now the Earl of Balfour) Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, 1916-1919] The Ambassador's mail likewise underwent a complete transformation.

His correspondence of the preceding two years, enormous in its extent, had contained much that would have disturbed a man who could easily get excited over trifles, but this aspect of his work never caused Page the slightest unhappiness.

Almost every crank in England who disliked the American policy had seemed to feel it his duty to express his opinions to the American Ambassador.

These letters, at times sorrowful, at others abusive, even occasionally threatening, varying in their style from cultivated English to the grossest illiteracy, now written in red ink to emphasize their bitterness, now printed in large block letters to preserve their anonymity, aroused in Page only a temporary amusement.
But the letters that began to pour in upon him after our Declaration, many of them from the highest placed men and women in the Kingdom, brought out more vividly than anything else the changed position of his country.