[8] The italics are Page's.
[9] Viscount Bryce, author of "The American Commonwealth" and British Ambassador to the United States, 1907-1913.
[10] In a communication sent February 10, 1915, President Wilson warned the German Government that he would hold it to a "strict accountability" for the loss of American lives by illegal submarine attack.
[11] A reference to the Anglo-French loan for $500,000,000, placed in the United States in the autumn of 1915.
[12] The Marquis Imperiali.
[13] Rustem Bey, the Turkish Ambassador to the United States, was sent home early in the war, for publishing indiscreet newspaper and magazine articles.