God pity us for not having organized the world better than this! We'll do it, yet, Mr.President--_you'll_ do it; and thank God for you.

If we do not organize Europe and make another such catastrophe impossible, life will not be worth being born into except to the few whose days happen to fall between recurring devastations of the world.
Yours sincerely, WALTER H.PAGE.
"I hope that the English people," Colonel House wrote to Page about this time, "realize how successful Mr.Balfour's visit to America really was.
There is no man they could have sent who could have done it better.

He and the President got along marvellously well.

The three of us dined and spent the evening together and it was delightful to see how sympathetic their minds were." A letter from Mr.Polk also discloses the impression which Mr.Balfour made upon Washington: _From Frank L.Polk_ Washington, May 25, 1917.
MY DEAR MR.

PAGE: I just want to get off a line to catch the pouch.
You probably know what a wonderful success the British Mission has been, but I do not think you can realize what a deep impression they have made on all of us.