CONTENTS

VOLUME II

CHAPTER PAGE
[XIV.][THE "LUSITANIA" AND AFTER]1
[XV.][THE AMBASSADOR AND THE LAWYERS]53
[XVI.][DARK DAYS FOR THE ALLIES]81
[XVII.][CHRISTMAS IN ENGLAND, 1915]103
[XVIII.][A PERPLEXED AMBASSADOR]128
[XIX.][WASHINGTON IN THE SUMMER OF 1916]148
[XX.]["PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY"]189
[XXI.][THE UNITED STATES AT WAR]215
[XXII.][THE BALFOUR MISSION TO THE UNITED STATES]248
[XXIII.][PAGE—THE MAN]295
[XXIV.][A RESPITE AT ST. IVES]321
[XXV.][GETTING THE AMERICAN TROOPS TO FRANCE]349
[XXVI.][LAST DAYS IN ENGLAND]374
[XXVII.][THE END]404
[APPENDIX]407
[INDEX]425

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Sir Edward Grey][Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
[Col. Edward M. House.] From a painting by P.A. Laszlo[88]
[The Rt. Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith], Prime Minister
of Great Britain, 1908-1916		[89]
[Herbert C. Hoover], in 1914[104]
[A facsimile page from the Ambassador's letter] of
November 24, 1916, resigning his Ambassadorship		[105]
[Walter H. Page], at the time of America's entry into
the war, April, 1917		[216]
[Resolution passed by the two Houses of Parliament],
April 18, 1917, on America's entry into the war		[217]
[The Rt. Hon. David Lloyd George], Prime Minister
of Great Britain, 1916—		[232]
[The Rt. Hon. Arthur James Balfour] (now the Earl of
Balfour), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
1916-1919		[233]
[Lord Robert Cecil], Minister of Blockade, 1916-1918,
Assistant Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
1918		[344]
[General John J. Pershing], Commander-in-Chief of
the American Expeditionary Force in the Great War		[345]
[Admiral William Sowden Sims], Commander of
American Naval Forces operating in European
waters during the Great War		[360]
[A silver model of the Mayflower], the farewell gift
of the Plymouth Council to Mr. Page		[361]