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Charles Lincoln White sends Theodore Roosevelt a small book on a situation churches of all denominations are facing. White believes Roosevelt might enjoy looking through it as it discusses topics of which Roosevelt has made a special study.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-24
Rev. Dr. John Morgan, Rector of Holy Trinity Parish, Paris, France, has asked Bishop Satterlee to communicate to President Roosevelt the importance of having an American ambassador in Paris who has definite religious principles.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-12-10
Theodore Roosevelt appreciates Vahan Cardashian’s letter about the creation of an American committee to influence the Turkish Government and the treatment of Christians but at the moment he is unable to head such a committee.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-21
Theodore Roosevelt wishes he could help Shibli Schemeil but is powerless because he is not president and does not hold any public office. Roosevelt also states that the Armenians and other Christian subjects of the Turkish government have suffered the most during the course of the war.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-06-26
President Roosevelt says the statistics are interesting and it is no wonder the Turks keep hold when the Christians are so brutal toward each other.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-23
President Roosevelt will avoid using Cuba as an example when speaking about the Philippines. He believes that Christian Filipinos will eventually “show themselves fit” to be given a form of self-government like Cuba, but it may take a number of years.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-26
Vahan Cardashian encloses to Theodore Roosevelt a copy of a correspondence of letters between himself and Andrew Dickson White addressing the need for the creation of an American Committee to influence the Turkish government in its treatment of Christians. For the committee to be effective it must consist of men whose name carry international weight and Cardashian hopes Roosevelt will serve on it.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-20
Cecil Spring Rice informs President Roosevelt of his recent illness and encourages him to take his children to the doctor if any of them have stopped up noses. Due to his illness he has had to leave Perisa, but Spring Rice tells Roosevelt that he will either take a quiet post or retire when he has recovered. Spring Rice suggests that newspapers are in the hands of Roosevelt’s enemies and are hostile at heart. Spring Rice believes that there is little that can be done to avoid challenging racial difficulties in the future, as the Muslims in the world have had enough of Christian aggression. However, the English government is mostly concerned with internal affairs and has mostly ignored questions of foreign policy. Spring Rice worries about relations between Germany and England and believes that Germany might attack England at some point in the future. He concludes with his well wishes for Christmas and mentions that his wife Florence Spring Rice hopes to see Roosevelt soon.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-12-04
Silas McBee encloses a letter from the Executive Committee of the Laymen’s Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada. McBee asks President Roosevelt if he would write a reference letter for the Movement that McBee could use in England. The French Ambassador told McBee about the conversation President Roosevelt had with the ambassador about the Peace Congress. The ambassador begged McBee to tell Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau what McBee had told Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-05-11
Ambassador Meyer notifies President Roosevelt of the social problems unfolding in Russia at the prospect of granting concessions to the Jewish people. The proposed bill would allow every Jewish person who finishes his military service to move freely throughout the country, although Jewish people would still not be permitted to own land outside the Pale of Settlement. The “Jewish problem” is a difficult one for the Russian Cabinet to solve. Meyer thinks it will not be settled by foreign intervention, but by the country’s financial necessities.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-11-26
A circular by Charles J. Kluser denouncing the Socialist speaker Eugene V. Debs, labeling him a revolutionary and a liar, and begging any Christians not to pay to see him speak.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-12