Estournelles de Constant, Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, baron d', 1852-1924

Nicholas Murray Butler updates President Roosevelt on the progress being made to establish the Association for International Conciliation, with funding from Andrew Carnegie. The peace work of the association is to be done as quietly as possible and in accordance with the wishes of Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root. In addition, Butler offers Roosevelt his support in regard to the Brownsville affair and encourages Roosevelt to keep up a “stiff front” to the “Senate oligarchy.” Butler also shares his observations regarding how railroad officials are trying to make the new railroad rate law unpopular, but concludes that, despite challenges, the law will succeed in the end.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-01-21

Creator(s)

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Nicholas Murray Butler tells President Roosevelt about the League for International Conciliation, organized by Senator Estournelles de Constant of France. Butler hopes that Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize fund might support this group, or at least not work in opposition to it. Butler is in charge of organizing American membership in the organization, has already arranged a conference with Andrew Carnegie and Congressman Richard Bartholdt, and reports that there is enthusiasm from many different people within the United States. He encloses a list of the membership in the League thus far.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-11

Creator(s)

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

Baron d’Estournelles de Constant has written an article in the Revue Bleue in which he says that, under the leadership of President Roosevelt, America is competing with other nations materially but providing an example morally. Roosevelt is a true statesman and deserves the respect of both his countrymen and others around the world.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-16

Creator(s)

Unknown

Theodore Roosevelt was very impressed by Price Collier’s recent Decoration Day address, and felt compelled to write to him about it. Roosevelt laments some of the forces at work in the international peace movement because of their “mushy sentimentality” and “maudlin confusion of right and wrong.” He feels that arbitration treaties are largely useless because they are not able to address the problems that plague countries internally, and are unlikely to be invoked in actual issues of international relations where the honor of countries is at play.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt writes to Norske Nobelkomite, the Nobel Committee of the Norwegian Parliament, to advocate for the selection of Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, Baron d’Estournelles de Constant.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-01-18

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt was interested in Baron d’Estournelles’s letter, but tells Nicholas Murray Butler that he cannot answer it. He invites Butler and his wife to Washington.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-29

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt introduces Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, Baron d’ Estournelles de Constant to Judge Robert Grant.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt urges Barrett Wendell to have Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, baron d’Estournelles de Constant, meet “the really rational people” rather than “the lunatic friends of peace” if he visits Boston.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-11

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt introduces Baron Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, Estournelles de Constant to A. Lawrence Lowell. 

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-11

President Roosevelt hopes President pro tempore of the Senate Frye and other members of Congress can accept the invitation of French Senator Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet Estournelles de Constant to visit France in the summer.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-04

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Robert Grant enjoyed meeting Baron Estournelles de Constant, though the baron could only spare a few minutes. Grant had a good impression of him and is pleased to entertain any friend of President Roosevelt’s. Grant also recently had dinner with Rooevelt’s son, Ted, and enjoyed reciting poetry with him.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-04-22

Creator(s)

Grant, Robert, 1852-1940

In a letter to an unspecified party, Columbia University President Butler speaks about how organizer of the Association for International Conciliation baron Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet Estournelles de Constant has requested Butler’s help organizing public relations in regards to the agency. He states that it is particularly desirable for the American representatives at the upcoming Hague Conference to be able to rely upon “instructed and sympathetic public opinion.” Butler asks for the recipient’s opinion on who should be asked to join a related committee.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1906-12-05

Creator(s)

Butler, Nicholas Murray, 1862-1947

In reply to the letter from William Loeb, Alvey A. Adee advises Benjamin F. Barnes to direct the ambassador at Paris to convey suitable acknowledgement to Senator Estournelles de Constant of France for the book he presented to President Roosevelt.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-07-18

Creator(s)

Adee, Alvey A. (Alvey Augustus), 1842-1924

President Roosevelt thanks Robert Grant and comments on his recent visits, his son Theodore Roosevelt Jr., and Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet Estournelles de Constant of France.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1907-04-23

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Deputy Estournelles de Constant is a member of the French Parliament and the Permanent Court of Arbitration.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-02

Creator(s)

Unknown

Oscar S. Straus encloses a clipping from Paris.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-17

Creator(s)

Straus, Oscar S. (Oscar Solomon), 1850-1926

Secretary of State Hay encloses a letter from Baron d’Estournelles de Constant congratulating President Roosevelt on his initiating the International Court of Arbitration at the Hague.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-01-14

Creator(s)

Hay, John, 1838-1905

Anna Roosevelt Cowles enjoyed her recent visit. She encloses two items: a letter from an acquaintance who wanted to be sure it reached the President personally, and a newspaper clipping of Deputy Estournelles de Constant’s remarks at the American-French banquet. Cowles received a letter from Elisabeth Mills Reid regarding her husband’s service as special envoy for the United States at the coronation of King Edward. Cowles hopes the President will have the Reids to lunch soon. She also expresses interest in what Secretary of the Navy Moody will decide regarding work to be done by Admirals Bradford, O’Neil, and Bowles.

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Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1902-07-28

Creator(s)

Cowles, Anna Roosevelt, 1855-1931