[Footnote 12:  In about a year Page moved the Chancery to the present satisfactory quarters at No. 4 Grosvenor Gardens.]

[Footnote 13:  Mrs. Walter H. Page.]

[Footnote 14:  Miss Katharine A. Page, the Ambassador’s daughter.]

[Footnote 15:  “Effendi” is the name by which Mr. F.N.  Doubleday, Page’s partner, is known to his intimates.  It is obviously suggested by the initials of his name.]

[Footnote 16:  A reference to William Sulzer, Governor of New York, who at this time was undergoing impeachment.]

[Footnote 17:  See Chapter VIII, page 258.]

[Footnote 18:  The Ambassador’s son.]

[Footnote 19:  Miss Katharine A. Page.]

[Footnote 20:  Mr. Andrew Carnegie.]

[Footnote 21:  Mrs. Walter H. Page is the daughter of a Scotchman from Ayrshire.]

[Footnote 22:  The astonishing thing about Page’s comment on the leadership of the United States—­if it would only take this leadership—­is that these letters were written in 1913, a year before the outbreak of the war, and eight years before the Washington Disarmament Conference of 1921-22.]

[Footnote 23:  Just what this critical Briton had in mind, in thinking that the removal of a New York governor created a vacancy in the Vice-Presidency, is not clear.  Possibly, however, he had a cloudy recollection of the fact that Theodore Roosevelt, after serving as Governor of New York State, became Vice-President, and may have concluded from this that the two offices were held by the same man.]

[Footnote 24:  For years this idea of the stenographer back of a screen in the Foreign Office has been abroad, but it is entirely unfounded.  Several years ago a Foreign Secretary, perhaps Lord Salisbury, put a screen behind his desk to keep off the draughts and from this precaution the myth arose that it shielded a stenographer who took a complete record of ambassadorial conversations.  After an ambassador leaves, the Foreign Secretary, however, does write out the important points in the conversation.  Copies are made and printed, and sent to the King, the Prime Minister, the British Ambassador in the country to which the interview relates, and occasionally to others.  All these records are, of course, carefully preserved in the archives of the Foreign Office.]

[Footnote 25:  The Rev. Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley, the well-known Vicar of Crosthwaite, Keswick, poet and student of Wordsworth.  President Wilson, who used occasionally to spend his vacation in the Lake region, was one of his friends.]

[Footnote 26:  It is perhaps unnecessary to say that the Ambassador was thinking only of a diplomatic “fight.”]

[Footnote 27:  The Underwood Bill revising the tariff “downward” became a law October, 1913.  It was one of the first important measures of the new Wilson Administration.]

[Footnote 28:  Secretary of Agriculture in President Wilson’s Cabinet.]