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aggerates. He complained that Lansing discusses matters with the British
Ambassador without informing him. At the same time he told me with some
satisfaction that Lansing said the British Ambassador was totally unfit for
his duties, and should be replaced by someone with a more equable temperament
and one who had a better understanding of the situation. Page does not know
that Lansing's opinion of the British Ambassador is perhaps a shade higher
than his opinion of Page himself.
He said the British resent our trying to bring about peace; they thought
my visits to Europe were for that purpose and that I was sent abroad as the
special emissary of the President in order to find some crevice in the armor
where we might make an entering wedge toward peace. I did not think this was
an ignoble <add>an</add> effort as it seemed to Page. He declares none of us understand
the situation or the high purposes of the British in this war. I replied
that we resented some of the cant and hypocrisy indulged in by the British,
for instance, as to Belgium. Page admitted that the British would have been
found fighting with France even if France had violated Belgium in order to
reach German territory more effectively.
I asked Page if he thought the irritation apparent in Great Britain had
increased because of naval program, and whether we were not getting in the
same position, from the British viewpoint, as Germany. I spoke of the tra-
ditional friendship between Germany and Great Britain which existed until Ger-
many began to cut into British trade and to plan a navy large enough to become
formidable, and I wondered whether they did not see us as a similar menace
both as to their trade and supremacy of the seas.
Page thought not, and yet he said Great Britain would never allow
us to have a navy equal or superior to theirs. If we built, they would build
more, although they would do it in a friendly spirit.
| Title | ms_0466_s2_v4_236 |
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aggerates. He complained that Lansing discusses matters with the British
Ambassador without informing him. At the same time he told me with some
satisfaction that Lansing said the British Ambassador was totally unfit for
his duties, and should be replaced by someone with a more equable temperament
and one who had a better understanding of the situation. Page does not know
that Lansing's opinion of the British Ambassador is perhaps a shade higher
than his opinion of Page himself.
He said the British resent our trying to bring about peace; they thought
my visits to Europe were for that purpose and that I was sent abroad as the
special emissary of the President in order to find some crevice in the armor
where we might make an entering wedge toward peace. I did not think this was
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