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H. Mortimer Durand informs Alvey A. Adee that a joint commission has been appointed to investigate the obstructions on the St. John River. The Dominion Government of Canada approved the creation of the commission and the funding for the commission. Durand will soon notify Adee of the names of those appointed to the commission.
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1906-08-18
Spencer F. Eddy reports that Emperor Nicholas II intends to relinquish his autocratic rule and for Sergei Witte to draw up a constitution on liberal lines. Witte will be named prime minister.
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1905-10-26
Ambassador McCormick writes that it was through his suggestion that Mr. Witte rescinded the maximum duties placed on imported American products.
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1905-09-28
Baron Takahira sends a copy of the Treaty of Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1905 to Assistant Secretary of State Adee.
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1905-09-26
Ambassador Meyer informs Assistant Secretary of State Adee that Czar Nicholas II will not accept Japan’s current demands for peace.
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1905-08-18
John Fowler includes a copy of his dispatch to Peking regarding the Chinese boycott at Qingdao.
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1905-08-17
Confirmation of two telegrams from George von Lengerke Meyer to Alvey A. Adee, discussing Czar Nicholas II’s unwillingness to accept Japan’s current demands for peace.
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1905-08-18
Ambassador Meyer reports that Czar Nicholas II thinks Japan’s settlement demands are meant to embarrass Russia and wonders if England encouraged those demands.
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1905-08-20
Cheng Liang has been authorized by the Chinese government to take control of the Canton-Hankow railroad and carry out the agreement with the American China Development Company.
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1905-08-21
Benjamin F. Barnes provides text for a telegram from President Roosevelt to Minister William Woodville Rockhill, disapproving of the foreign office’s actions regarding interactions with China.
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1905-08-14
Ambassador Meyer relays the news that the Russian reform movement now wants peace as they are sure a National Assembly will be formed.
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1905-08-07
In a confidential telegram, Ambassador Meyer reveals that it is believed that the Peterhof Conference has voted to have a national assembly and that the Czar has signed a constitution.
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1905-08-05
John Fowler sends a copy of his dispatch to Minister Rockhill regarding the anti-American movement in Shantung, China.
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1905-08-03
Ambassador Meyer warns that the reformers in Russia want to postpone peace because the time seems to be favorable for reforms.
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1905-08-03
President Roosevelt returns a draft rewritten to include “they are so utterly absurd that I never even knew of their existence.”
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1905-08-02
Baron Rosen requests permission to go back to Russia with the promise that he will not take part in the war.
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1905-07-26
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1905-07-26
McCormick, Robert Sanderson, 1849-1919
Ambassador McCormick asks Assistant Secretary of State Adee to explain to Sergei Vitte why the United States decided to try the Russian sugar bounty case in the Supreme Court with the hope that Russia lowers the duty on American products once again.
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1905-07-22
Hjalmar Christian Hauge denies consulting with Professor Moore and General Foster as stated in the enclosed article.
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1905-07-19
Ambassador Meyer tells Acting Secretary of State Adee that Sergei Vitte called on him recently. Meyer was impressed with Vitte’s character and direct way of speaking. Vitte told Meyer that he regrets Ito Hirobumi is not coming as plenipotentiary, as Vitte feels they could have come to an immediate understanding. Vitte will do the utmost within his instructions in order to bring about an agreement.
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1905-07-16