It was a matter that the Secretary could settle only with his own conscience.

Mr.Fowler decided his problem by joining the British Army; he had a distinguished career in its artillery and aviation service as he had subsequently in the American Army.

Mr.Fowler at once discovered that his decision had been highly pleasing to his superior.
"I couldn't advise you to do this, Harold," Page said, placing his hand on the young man's shoulder, "but now that you've settled it yourself I'll say this--if I were a young man like you and in your circumstances, I should enlist myself." Yet greatly as Page abhorred the Prussians and greatly as his sympathies from the first day of the war were enlisted on the side of the Allies, there was no diplomat in the American service who was more "neutral" in the technical sense.

"Neutral!" Page once exclaimed.
"There's nothing in the world so neutral as this embassy.

Neutrality takes up all our time." When he made this remark he was, as he himself used to say, "the German Ambassador to Great Britain." And he was performing the duties of this post with the most conscientious fidelity.
These duties were onerous and disagreeable ones and were made still more so by the unreasonableness of the German Government.