VOLUME II

     Chapter page
       XIV.  The “Lusitania” And after 1
        XV.  The ambassador and the lawyers 53
       XVI.  Dark days for the allies 81
      XVII.  Christmas in England, 1915 103
     XVIII.  A perplexed ambassador 128
       XIX.  Washington in the summer of 1916 148
        XX.  “Peace without victory” 189
       XXI.  The united states at war 215
      XXII.  The Balfour mission to the united states 248
     XXIII.  Page—­the man 295
      XXIV.  A respite at st. Ives 321
       XXV.  Getting the American troops to France 349
      XXVI.  Last days in England 374
     XXVII.  The end 404
            appendix 407
            Index 425

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Sir Edward Grey Frontispiece

Facingpage

Col.  Edward M. House.  From a painting by P.A. 
Laszlo 88

The Rt.  Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith, Prime Minister
of Great Britain, 1908-1916 89

Herbert C. Hoover, in 1914 104

A facsimile page from the Ambassador’s letter of
November 24, 1916, resigning his Ambassadorship 105

     Walter H. Page, at the time of America’s entry into
     the war, April, 1917 216

     Resolution passed by the two Houses of Parliament,
     April 18, 1917, on America’s entry into the war 217

     The Rt.  Hon. David Lloyd George, Prime Minister
     of Great Britain, 1916—­ 232

     The Rt.  Hon. Arthur James Balfour (now the Earl of
     Balfour), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
     1916-1919 233

     Lord Robert Cecil, Minister of Blockade, 1916-1918,
     Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
     1918 344

     General John J. Pershing, Commander-in-Chief of
     the American Expeditionary Force in the Great
     War 345