They'll find out the truth some day, paying, I fear, a heavy penalty for delay.

But the visit here has confirmed me in our previous conclusions--that if we can carry the load until March 4th, midnight, we shall be grateful that we have pulled through." Soon after President Wilson's reelection, therefore, Page sent his resignation to Washington.

The above quotation shows that he intended this to be more than a "courtesy resignation," a term traditionally applied to the kind of leave-takings which Ambassadors usually send on the formation of a new administration, or at the beginning of a new Presidential term, for the purpose of giving the President the opportunity of reorganizing his official family.

Page believed that his work in London had been finished, that he had done everything in his power to make Mr.Wilson see the situation in its true light and that he had not succeeded.

He therefore wished to give up his post and come home.