No such general wish exists.
I do not know, Mr.President, who else, if anybody, puts these facts before you with this complete frankness.

But I can do no less and do my duty.
No Englishman--except two who were quite intimate friends--has spoken to me about our Government for months, but I detect all the time a tone of pity and grief in their studied courtesy and in their avoidance of the subject.

And they talk with every other American in this Kingdom.

It is often made unpleasant for Americans in the clubs and in the pursuit of their regular business and occupations; and it is always our inaction about the _Lusitania_.
Our controversy with the British Government causes little feeling and that is a sort of echo of the _Lusitania_.

They feel that we have not lived up to our promises and professions.
That is the whole story.
Believe me always heartily, WALTER H.PAGE.
* * * * * This dismissal of Dumba and of the Attaches has had little more effect on opinion here than the dismissal of the Turkish Ambassador[13].
Sending these was regarded as merely kicking the dogs of the man who had stolen our sheep.
VI One of the reasons why Page felt so intensely about American policy at this time was his conviction that the severance of diplomatic relations, in the latter part of 1915, or the early part of 1916, in itself would have brought the European War to an end.