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

CHAPTER XXII
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It has meant much to know them well.

I shall always be grateful to them, for in their quiet, forceful way they helped me much to establish right relations with these people--which, pray God, I hope to retain through whatever new trials we may yet encounter.
For it will fall to us yet to loose and to free the British, and a Briton set free is an American.

That's all you can do for a man or for a nation of men.
These Foreign Secretaries are not only men of much greater cultivation than their Prime Ministers but of greater moral force.
But I've come to like Lloyd George very much.

He'd never deliver a lecture on Dryden, and he doesn't even play a good game of golf; but he has what both Lord Grey and Mr.Balfour lack--a touch of genius--whatever that is--not the kind that takes infinite pains, but the kind that acts as an electric light flashed in the dark.

He said to me the other day that experts have nearly been the death of him.


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