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President Roosevelt writes that unless Admiral Caspar F. Goodrich produces evidence, there is no need for Admiral A. T. Mahan to act. Multiple accounts have validated Admiral Charles S. Sperry’s statements, and Goodrich has been against the voyage of the Great White Fleet from the start.
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1908-10-01
President Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt appreciated Lieutenant Commander Long’s letters and the Sidney Telegraph clipping. Roosevelt is pleased to know of the sympathies of the Australians and the update on the fleet. When Long returns Roosevelt will see if he can secure him shore duty.
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1908-09-28
President Roosevelt has sent British Ambassador Bryce’s letter to Ambassador William Woodville Rockhill. He agrees that one of the benefits of the Atlantic Fleet’s voyage is getting in touch with Australia. Roosevelt echoes Bryce’s thoughts of the late Ambassador Herman Speck von Sternburg.
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1908-09-07
President Roosevelt acknowledges the kind message from Governor-General of Australia William Humble Ward as received through the British Charge d’Affaires. He expresses America’s appreciation to Ward and the Australian people for hosting the Atlantic Fleet on “its voyage of peace.”
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1908-08-20
President Roosevelt informs A. C. Veatch that he has been designated a special commissioner to visit Australia and New Zealand to make a study of the coal land laws there.
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1907-09-19
President Roosevelt thanks John St. Loe Strachey for his letter and comments that both of them agree with the great questions between Great Britain and the United States. Roosevelt worries about the rise of socialism in Britain. He also discusses issues of immigration, particularly comparing the race riots in Vancouver, Canada, with those in San Francisco, California.
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1907-09-09
President Roosevelt agrees with Secretary of War Taft and has removed the reference to receivership from his speech. The “Philippine question” is the only point on which he remains uneasy. He details his thoughts and concerns about the United States’ continued relationship with the islands, including their strategic importance in the event of a conflict with Japan and the issue of granting autonomy.
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1907-08-21
President Roosevelt received Laura d’Oremieulx Roosevelt’s letter and the book and looks forward to reading them. The family has missed Laura and her family at Oyster Bay. Roosevelt had archeologist Langdon Warner over, and thanks Laura for introducing him.
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1907-08-13
President Roosevelt was impressed with the account of a German military attaché in Japan that German Ambassador Sternburg recently sent him, especially in the assessment that racial tensions are driving relations in the Pacific. Roosevelt looks forward to seeing Sternburg and his wife this weekend.
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1907-08-03
President Roosevelt tells Spectator editor John St. Loe Strachey that he is embarrassed of the way that former Ambassador Bellamy Storer has behaved in the press as of late, but that he ultimately stands by all sentiments he gave in the letters that have been made public. The president muses on the details surrounding the recent controversy regarding the exclusion of Japanese children from San Francisco schools, as well as his proposed plan for the United States and Japan to keep their laborers out of one another’s countries.
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1906-12-21
President Roosevelt tells British Ambassador to the United States Grey that Rennel Rodd was offered a position interacting with the US government, but turned it down. Roosevelt contrasts the attitudes and relations of a number of different countries with America and England, and takes a specific focus on Japan. Roosevelt notes that Japan has continued preparing for war over the last decade, and writes that there will be industrial competition between Japan and European countries. He also wonders if they are planning on invading America, Germany, or the Philippines. Roosevelt wants the United States and Japan to sign a treaty stating they will keep their citizens out of each other’s labor markets. Roosevelt closes by remarking on the similarities in governmental thinking and military approach between the United States and England.
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1906-12-19
President Roosevelt sends thanks to Cardinal Patrick F. Moran. Roosevelt expresses his regard for Cardinal Gibbons and his appreciation for the Cardinal’s attitude.
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1901-09-24
Thomas T. Wright expresses to Oscar W. Underwood that the U.S. needs more American ships in foreign trade and urges Congress to pass a ship subsidy bill to support the merchant marine and boost the southern economy.
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1911-09-11
Andrew Carnegie sends President Roosevelt clippings from the London Times and Scotsman that “show how the crisis develops.” Carnegie believes that Great Britain is “helpless to meet the question” because it has to deal with India as well as Japan and thinks the United States can do better with the Japanese than Great Britain.
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1907-09-11
President Roosevelt handled the Bellamy Storer affair exactly as John St. Loe Strachey expected. Strachey hopes that the Americans are able to make a model treaty with the Japanese, as he believes that England may confront similar issues soon. Strachey and his wife are traveling to Berlin to visit friends and he asks for a letter of introduction to Ambassador Charlemagne Tower. Strachey also asks Roosevelt what he thought about his recent article in the Spectator about the proposal to create representative government in India. In a handwritten postscript, Strachey mentions that he received a “capital letter” from General Leonard Wood, and he hopes to meet Wood in the United States.
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1906-12-31
Secretary of War Taft states the Chinese recently purchased a large amount of flour from Australia, which has not occurred for many years.
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1905-06-25
A. J. Sage congratulates President Roosevelt on escaping from the accident and hopes to see him next year when Sage is traveling to the United States. He thought that Roosevelt would be interested to know that there are plans to introduce African eland into Australia.
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1902-09-07
Richard Arthur writes to the Australian people regarding President Roosevelt’s visit and the role of Australia in world politics, particularly in Asia.
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1906-01-05
Edward VII, King of Great Britain, thanks President Roosevelt for the letter, delivered by Ambassador Whitelaw Reid. He has been following the progress of the Great White Fleet in the Pacific, and admires the undertaking. Edward VII agrees that “the interests of the English speaking peoples are alike in the Atlantic & the Pacific,” and empathizes with the questions of immigration and emigration with which Roosevelt has to deal.
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1908-03-05
Theodore Roosevelt has enjoyed H. Rider Haggard’s book Rural Denmark. He agrees with Haggard regarding the land and those who live on it. Roosevelt comments on settlement patterns and their relations to agriculture and English speaking, as seen in the United States, Canada, Australia, and England. He compares the seemingly transient English settlers in East Africa with the Boers. While Denmark has done well, Roosevelt was puzzled by a particular “queer social growth” during his visit. He understands Haggard’s discouragement in trying to teach people “what is vital for them to learn and what they refuse to learn,” and advises him to approach the task. Roosevelt apologizes for writing “an unconscionably long letter.”
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1911-08-22