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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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