May the New Year be the best that has ever come for you! Affectionately, W.H.P.
FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 68: Evidently the battle of Heligoland Bight of August 28, 1914.] [Footnote 69: The reference in all probability is to Mr.Charles L.
Hoover, at that time American Consul at Carlsbad.] [Footnote 70: German Ambassador in Washington.] [Footnote 71: Professor of Psychology at Harvard University, whose openly expressed pro-Germanism was making him exceedingly unpopular in the United States.] [Footnote 72: Evidently written in the latter part of September, 1914.] [Footnote 73: Miss Katharine A.Page, the Ambassador's daughter.] [Footnote 74: The _Hague_, the _Cressy_, and the _Aboukir_ were torpedoed by a German submarine September 22, 1914.

This exploit first showed the world the power of the submarine.] [Footnote 75: Princess Lichnowsky, wife of the German Ambassador to Great Britain.] [Footnote 76: Private Secretary to Mrs.Page.] [Footnote 77: Mr.Harold Fowler, the Ambassador's Secretary.] [Footnote 78: Probably a reference to Mr.Charles M.Schwab, President of the Bethlehem Steel Company, who was in London at this time on this errand.] [Footnote 79: No.

4 Grosvenor Gardens.] [Footnote 80: Miss Katharine A.Page had just returned from a visit to the United States.] [Footnote 81: Mr.Arthur W.Page's country home on Long Island.] [Footnote 82: Evidently the _Audacious_, sunk by mine off the North of Ireland, October 27, 1914.] [Footnote 83: Tewfik Pasha, the very popular Turkish Ambassador to Great Britain.] [Footnote 84: Germany was conducting her trade with the neutral world largely through Dutch and Danish ports.] [Footnote 85: Mr.Irwin Laughlin, first secretary of the American Embassy in London, furnishes this note: "This statement about America was made to me more than once in Germany, between 1910 and 1912, by German officers, military and naval."] [Footnote 86: Of Pinehurst, North Carolina, the Ambassador's oldest son.] [Footnote 87: On June 12, 1914.

The title of the address was "Some Aspects of the American Democracy."] [Footnote 88: The Ambassador's youngest son.] [Footnote 89: Mrs.W.H.Page was at this time spending a few weeks in the United States.].