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President Roosevelt has extended leave for Ambassador Meyer. The Panama Railroad still owns the contracts, but Roosevelt is trying to obtain government control over them.
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1904-08-25
President Roosevelt directed Alvey A. Adee to instruct the Navy that they must not interfere in any fighting between the Russians and Japanese in the neutral Chinese port. Roosevelt agrees that the best solution would be for China to say they cannot keep the peace and let the Russians and Japanese fight.
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1904-08-24
President Roosevelt requests that the Secretary of State keep Alvey A. Adee and Roosevelt informed on the Chinese neutrality issue. Roosevelt believes that Russia should disarm their ships or Japan will attack.
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1904-08-22
Secretary of the Treasury Cortelyou details why Théobald Chartran’s painting depicting the signing of the “Protocols of Peace” between the United States and Spain in August, 1898, is not historically accurate. He does not want a 1902 letter from the French ambassador at the time, Jules Cambon, to be attached to the painting’s provenance. Cortelyou shares the letter and compares Cambon’s list of attendees with his own meticulous secretarial notes from the event. Neither the photograph Frances Benjamin Johnston took the day after the actual signing nor Chartran’s painting provide a completely accurate representation of the attendees and setting.
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1909-02-05
Secretary of State Root sends an enclosed dispatch from Minister to Persia John B. Jackson, which shows the effects of President Roosevelt’s appointment of him as a matter of favor rather than his qualifications. With Persia currently undergoing a revolution, the Department of State already has enough trouble. Root has drafted a response and waits for Roosevelt’s instructions.
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1907-12-23
A list of letters concerning rising tensions with Japan received by President Roosevelt and members of his administration during July, 1907. Summaries of the contents, creators, and recipients of the letters are included.
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1907-07-31
Secretary of the Navy Bonaparte has sought the advice of Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee whether to accept the honorary committee position. Adee advises against contacting J. J. Jusserand and recommends declining the offer altogether. Bonaparte asks for President Roosevelt’s input. Bonaparte also updates Roosevelt that the Indiana and Kentucky battleships are headed to Cuba, with others following. Bonaparte mentions an Associated Press article about General Taft’s growing impatience with the Cuban government in controlling the rebels.
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1906-09-25
Juan M. Ceballos discusses the American intervention in Cuba. He believes forming a provisional government in Cuba with General Wood in charge would benefit everyone. Although the Cuban people generally do not like Americans, Ceballos believes propaganda and education could be used to change their minds.
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1906-09-19
Captain Beehler sends a letter to Theodore Roosevelt confirming the receipt of a telegram wired on September 18, 1906, concerning the destruction of American property near Cienfuegos.
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1906-09-19
Captain Beehler sends a telegram to Theodore Roosevelt confirming the receipt of a longer telegram wired on September 18, 1906, concerning the destruction of American property near Cienfuegos.
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1906-09-18
Elihu Root thanks President Roosevelt for the entertaining letters. Root states he feels satisfied he is leaving the United States Department of State in good hands and discusses his travel plans.
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1906-07-02
Brazil and Mexico have agreed to go on with the Rio Conference and are to hold the South Americans in insisting upon a delay of The Hague.
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1906-04-06
Robert Bacon sends William Loeb a memorandum of a cablegram by Mr. Adee to the King of Italy about the eruption of Vesuvius.
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1906-04-10
This telegram states that President Roosevelt’s Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee has not found any remarks sent by Baron Roman Romanovich Rosen to the Department of State. It is customary of the department to wait to reply until remarks have been sent.
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1905
British Ambassador H. Mortimer Durand has notified the State Department that the Cuban railroad at Sagua La Grand is threatened by revolutionaries, and hopes that the United States will offer protection. Second Assistant Secretary of State Alvey A. Adee has sent the message to Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon, and wishes for President Roosevelt to be notified as well.
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1906
Alvey A. Adee reports that Emperor Nicholas II intends to abrogate autocratic power as a means to prevent disaster. Count Vitte will be named prime minister.
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1905-10-26
Ambassador McCormick encloses a letter from Alvey A. Adee that might be of interest to President Roosevelt and is pleased that his knowledge enabled him to suggest the repeal to Minister Vitte.
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1905-09-29
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis writes to President Roosevelt of his concern that Herbert W. Bowen has been spreading rumors of discord between Loomis and John Hay to various newspapers. Loomis contests the rumors, arguing that he visited Hay just prior to Hay’s death, and Hay expressed disgust with Bowen’s attitude and actions.
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1905-09-25
J. Parker writes to Assistant Secretary of State Loomis to discuss the boycott in China. The British American Tobacco Company wishes Secretary of War Taft will meet with the viceroy in Canton, China, in order to settle the matter. Parker hopes that Loomis will see fit to relay as much to Taft. Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee asks that this message be shown to President Roosevelt, as well.
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1905-09-02
Rudolph Forster quotes a telegram for President Roosevelt from the Chinese Foreign Office, authorizing Viceroy Zhidong Zhang to take control of the Hankow-Canton railway.
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1905-08-17