The President started out with the idea that it was a war brought on by many obscure causes--economic and the like; and he thus missed its whole meaning.

We have ever since been dealing with the chips which fly from the war machine and have missed the larger meaning of the conflict.

Thus we have failed to render help to the side of Liberalism and Democracy, which are at stake in the world." Nor did Page think it his duty, in his private communications to his Government and his friends, to maintain that attitude of moral detachment which Mr.Wilson's pronouncement had evidently enjoined upon him.

It was not his business to announce his opinions to the world, for he was not the man who determined the policy of the United States; that was the responsibility of the President and his advisers.

But an ambassador did have a certain role to perform.