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Show WALTER H. PAGE, ENVOY TO LONDON Ar3 1 i 3 rl Walter II. Pago of Garden City, L. I., editor of the World's Work and member of Doubleday. Pa.ne & Co., publishers, has accepted President Wilson's offer to be ambassador to Great Britain. The selection of Mr. Pago establishes estab-lishes that President Wilson has not abandoned his announced policy of choosing men for his important diplomatic posts without regard to their wealth. Indeed it can be stated that Mr. Page is another of the 11 I of comparatively poor men to whom President Wilson has offered ambassadorships. ambas-sadorships. Although he has been a successful publisher, as well as a litertary man of attainment, Mr. Page's means are moderate Mr. Page, demurred at accepting the appointment on the grounds that he did not have the fortune for-tune to maintain the American embassy em-bassy in the style which has been customary in the past. The president in turn gave Mr. Page to understand that he did not tninu it necessary for ambassadors to live lavishly, regardless of what the custom has been in the pasc. Mr. Page is a North Carolinan, an d a brother of Rep. R. N. Page. |