31 MAY 1913, Page 2

Dr. Walter Hines Page, the new United States ambassador, landed

in Liverpool on Saturday morning, and was welcomed at Euston by the staff of the Embassy on his arrival in London in the afternoon. Owing to the continuance of a niggardly policy for which Congress is primarily responsible, the new ambassador is for the moment -without a permanent residence, and has taken up temporary quarters at the Coburg Hotel. This inconvenient state of affairs can only be remedied by the Americans themselves, but it has no bearing on the cordial greeting extended by the British public to Dr. Page. He comes with a fine academic and literary record to a country where he has already many friends and, we are sure, will make many more.