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FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 11: Mr.Irwin Laughlin, first secretary of the American Embassy in London.] [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.