I cannot write more.
Heartily yours, WALTER H.PAGE.
"I have authoritatively heard," Page writes to President Wilson in early September, "of a private conversation between a leading member of the Cabinet and a group of important officials all friendly to us in which all sorrowfully expressed the opinion that the United States will submit to any indignity and that no effect is now to be hoped for from its protests against unlawful submarine attacks or against anything else.
The inactivity of our Government, or its delay, which they assume is the same as inactivity, is attributed to domestic politics or to the lack of national, consciousness or unity.
"No explanation has appeared in the British press of our Government's inactivity or of any regret or promise of reparation by Germany for the sinking of the _Lusitania_, the _Falaba_, the _Gulflight_, the _Nebraskan_, the _Arabic_, or the _Hesperian_, nor any explanation of a week's silence about the Dumba letter; and the conclusion is drawn that, in the absence of action by us, all these acts have been practically condoned.
"I venture to suggest that such explanations be made public as will remove, if possible, the practically unanimous conclusion here that our Government will permit these and similar future acts to be explained away.

I am surprised almost every hour by some new evidence of the loss of respect for our Government, which, since the sinking of the _Arabic_, has become so great as to warrant calling it a complete revulsion of English feeling toward the United States.

There is no general wish for us to enter the war, but there is genuine sorrow that we are thought to submit to any indignity, especially after having taken a firm stand.

I conceive I should be lacking in duty if I did not report this rapid and unfortunate change in public feeling, which seems likely to become permanent unless facts are quickly made public which may change it." * * * * * There are many expressions of such feelings in Page's letters of this time.

They brought only the most perfunctory acknowledgment from the White House.