This caused great bitterness in England, until Page showed the Admiralty a report from the Navy Department proving that the story was false.] [Footnote 59: This, of course, is Franklin D.Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in 1917.] [Footnote 60: This letter is dated London and was probably begun there.
It is evident, however, that the latter part was written at Brighton, where the Ambassador was taking a brief holiday.] [Footnote 61: This was a long document describing conditions in great detail.] [Footnote 62: The Navy Department had taken the position that arming merchantmen was the best protection against the submarine.

This statement was intended to refute this belief.] [Footnote 63: Dr.Wallace Buttrick, President of the General Education Board, who was sent at this time to deliver lectures throughout Great Britain on the United States.].