Greetings!
I thought I’d post a note stating that I was able to resolve my problem, and hopefully it will help you as well.
The solution came via a few rounds of my hosting service white-listing Mod-Security rules on the server.
“Mod-Security is an Apache module that helps to protect your website from various attacks. It is used to block commonly known exploits by use of regular expressions and rule sets and is enabled on all servers by default. Mod-security cannot be disabled on shared servers.”
Using Chrome, and while on the page-adding section of WordPress, I clicked Chrome’s menu – more tools – developer tools, and I was able to report the exact errors to the web host. They in turn white-listed specific rules until I was able to add pages to my WordPress website menu. Hope this helps you.
Cheers!