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William Woodville Rockhill says only Shanghai and Canton are affected by Chinese boycotts but sentiments are increasingly anti-foreign. Rockhill refuses further discussions until the boycotts cease and fears government apathy.
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1905-08-15
John Callan O’Laughlin reports to President Roosevelt on gossip he has heard from the peace conference between Russia and Japan following the Russo-Japanese war, including a list of rumored Japanese demands. O’Laughlin notes likely points of contention, but expresses his optimism that peace will be achieved. O’Laughlin also includes the key to a cipher for encrypted dispatches he may send in the event things “break up.”
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1905-08-08
Jean Jules Jusserand is visiting his home in the country after visiting Paris. Paul Revoil may be sent to Tangier. France has presented Germany with a plan for a conference about the Moroccan crisis, addressing the organization of Moorish troops, financial reforms, and open door policy. French ships can be sent to American waters, if President Roosevelt still requests them. Jusserand will try to meet with Pierre de La Gorce to discuss his writings.
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1905-08-09
Julius Gareché Lay relates President Roosevelt’s dictate that the American government will hold the Chinese government responsible for ensuring American rights from treaty 1858 article 15 in the face of the boycott.
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1905-08-09
John Callan O’Laughlin recounts to Theodore Roosevelt a meeting between Sergei Vitte and Baron Komura. After confusion regarding credentials, both parties were satisfied with the meeting. Japan seeks an indemnity payment and the island of Sakhalin, which Russia will not give up.
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1905-08-09
Russian and Japanese representatives met to discuss credentials and preliminaries and will meet daily from 9:30 to 5:30.
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1905-08-09
Representative Bartholdt relays his experience at the Interparliamentary Council in Brussels in which they asked about the second Hague Conference, which led to talk of the Russo-Japanese War. He discusses the outcomes of the Conference and the American pride he felt and asks if President Roosevelt wants to say anything about the conference paper.
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1905-07-30
Baron Rosen accepts being presented first, but would like the Russian envoy to take precedence after introductions.
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1905-08-03
Ambassador Meyer warns that reformers in Russia want to postpone peace, which may have an effect on Japan’s terms for peace.
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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
John Callan O’Laughlin had a conversation with Sergei Vitte, and Vitte says that Russia will not pay an indemnity or $750,000,000. Russia will not ask for an armistice and if Japanese terms are reasonable, he will accept them in one day.
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1905-08-03
Ambassador Meyer warns that reformers in Russia would like peace to be postponed and that the number of of Moscow reformers are increasing their strength.
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1905-08-03
Jean Jules Jusserand explains that Paul Révoil does not have a warlike policy, but is conciliatory and agrees with Germany regarding Morocco. Although Jusserand believes Tangiers is not a good place for the meeting, he is not opposed to beginning the conference there and then moving it to another city.
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1905-07-26
Minister Witte is not willing to yield to anything “on this point.”
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1905-07-26
Acting Secretary of State Adee writes to Benjamin F. Barnes, acting secretary to the President, enclosing a copy of a dispatch telling who will make up the Japanese Peace Commission for the discussions between Japan and Russia.
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1905-07-27
Rudolph Forster relays a telegram from Ambassador McCormick who says that Vitte refuses to even discuss the payment of an indemnity with Japanese commissioners.
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1905-07-26
Ambassador McCormick discusses his conversations with Sergei Vitte, in which Vitte says that Russia will not pay an indemnity to Japan. However, McCormick is sure that President Roosevelt can help negotiate peace.
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1905-07-26
Herbert H. D. Peirce wants to know if President Roosevelt approves the reception and dinner for the peace plenipotentiaries to be held August 5.
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1905-07-26
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis has learned that Count Sergei Witte will break off negotiations in ten days if Japan’s terms are unreasonable. Loomis goes on to tell what Witte is willing to negotiate.
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1905-07-28
German Emperor William II met with Russian Emperer Nicholas II. Nicholas II hopes that President Roosevelt will be able to bring Japan’s demands down to a reasonable level. He also likes and trusts Ambassador Meyer.
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1905-07-28