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German Ambassador Sternburg is not certain that incoming United States Ambassador to Germany David Jayne Hill was in Berlin during the dinner given by outgoing Ambassador Charlemagne Tower.
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1908-04-03
German Ambassador Sternburg thanks President Roosevelt for his invitation to go riding together. He must regretfully decline, as his eye has become inflamed after a long ride in the wind yesterday. There is supposed to be another strong wind today, so Sternburg should not ride again.
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1907-01-21
German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg asks William Loeb about the possibility of presenting visiting Germans, Dr. Straubel and Dr. Fischer, to President Roosevelt.
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1907-11-08
Ambassador Sternburg has heard that Secretary of War William H. Taft plans to leave Europe immediately due to the situation in Ohio. He asks President Roosevelt if Taft will follow this plan.
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1907-11-11
Hermann Speck von Sternburg accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch at the White House.
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1904-04-28
Hermann Speck von Sternburg explains, with some chagrin, that the interview with President Roosevelt, about which Roosevelt inquired, was published by a German newspaper editor who von Sternburg had introduced to the President.
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1904-04-28
The editor of the German newspaper Berliner Morgenpost wishes to meet with President Roosevelt.
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1904-05-02
German Ambassador Sternburg has agreed to speak at Sewanee University. He remarks on whether the Russian army will perform better than their navy, noting that “even the Spaniards” could have done better at Port Arthur.
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1904-04-19
Hermann Speck von Sternburg accepts President Roosevelt’s invitation to lunch. He also encloses a letter he meant to include in a message to the President the previous day.
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1904-04-20
Hermann Speck von Sternburg extends condolences upon hearing of the accident on board the USS Missouri.
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1904-04-14
Hermann Speck von Sternburg will return the letter sent by President Roosevelt.
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1904-04-16
Ambassador Sternburg has received news from Berlin regarding the issue that their friend, Cecil Spring Rice, is so worried about. There are rumors across Europe that Germany is going to lead an anti-British league. Sternburg denies these rumors and suggests that France started the rumors to intimidate Britain and make them more willing to concede to certain French demands.
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1904-03-24
Freiherr Sternburg looks forward to discussing the Russo-Japanese War with President Roosevelt.
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1904-02-16
In a commencement address to the faculty and students of the University of Illinois, German Ambassador Hermann Speck von Sternburg urges the graduating students to use their theoretical and practical knowledge for the public good.
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1906-09-09
Freiherr Sternburg encloses an article that caused a great deal of discussion and comment when he was abroad 6 weeks ago.
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1904-01-01
Freiherr Sternburg sends hunting sketches by noted German artist Max Haider to President Roosevelt.
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1903-12-25
Freiherr Hermann Speck von Sternburg comments on explorer Clement Littledale’s visit with President Roosevelt in Washington, D.C. Sternburg informs Roosevelt of his own plans to visit in November.
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1903-11-08
Freiherr Sternburg writes to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis to inform Loomis that anarchist leaders Abraham Isaac and Terry Carreen intend to visit Pittsburgh to renew agitation over a strike in the coal mines.
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1903-08-23
Ambassador Sternburg writes to President Roosevelt to inform Roosevelt that Sternburg has wired the Roosevelt’s message to Emperor William II. Sternburg comments on horsemanship skills and the German cavalry and gives his regards to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt.
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1903-08-15
Ambassador Sternburg requests an audience with President Roosevelt for Commander Schaefer concerning the presentation of a copy of the Register of the Imperial German Navy.
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1903-08-08