Page was not one of those who thought that the United States should declare war immediately after the _Lusitania_.

The President's course, in giving Germany a chance to make amends, and to disavow the act, met with his approval, and he found, also, much to admire in Mr.Wilson's first _Lusitania_ note.

His judgment in this matter was based first of all upon the merits of the case; besides this, his admiration for Mr.Wilson as a public man was strong.

To think otherwise of the President would have been a great grief to the Ambassador and to differ with his chief on the tremendous issue of the war would have meant for Page the severance of one of the most cherished associations of his life.

The interest which he had shown in advocating Wilson's presidential candidacy has already been set forth; and many phases of the Wilson administration had aroused his admiration.