A True Friend

Lord Grey of Fallodon unveiled a memorial in Westminster Abbey to the late Walter Hines Page, war-time U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. A large crowd of dignitaries attended the impressive ceremony.

Lord Grey: " It is most fitting that this memorial should be in Westminster Abbey, the shrine of so much that is great, honorable and dear in our history, which, not so very long ago, as time is reckoned, was as much a part of his ancestry as our own."

After a special prayer, The Battle Hymn of the Republic was sung for probably the first time within those ancient walls, followed by God Save the King and My Country 'Tis of Thee.

Mrs. Page, Arthur W. Page and wife, the Ambassador's daughter, Mrs. Loring, and his three grandchildren were present.

The Times: "On an appropriate morning, since this is Independence Day, the English speaking public of two hemispheres will read of the solemn ceremony at which the tablet was unveiled to the memory of the great American Ambassador. . . . There is a date of supreme importance to the calendar of Anglo-Sax-ondom more recent than that of Independence Day, and it is that one on which America entered the War and threw herself into the struggle for right and justice."

The Morning Post: " As long as the story of the great War is told the name of Walter Hines Page will be recalled with honor and affection in this country. Whatever changes time may bring, it will never invalidate his claim to a niche in the Abbey."

Mr. Page's memorial is the third to be erected to an United States' citizen, the others being to Longfellow and Lowell.