Mr. Page was impressed by the readiness with which our
Peaceful nation " settled down to war as its one great piece of business now in hand, and by the grim efficiency " of the Secret Service which detected a spy in the Getman Embassy, m oikin( under the eyes of the American officials.
" The English were slow in getting into full action, but now they never miss a trick, little or big. The Germans have far more than their match in resources and in shrewdness and—, in character. As the bloody drama unfolds itself, the hollow pretence and essential barbarity of Prussian militarism lt-1 t mot plainer and plainer ; there is no doubt of that. And so does the invincibility of this race."
He said of us in another letter :— • " It isn't an accident that these people own a fifth of the world Utterly unwarlike, they outlast anybody else when war comes."
Mr. Page knew that we should win.
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