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President Roosevelt informs Edwin Emerson that Guatemalan president Manuel Estrada Cabrera never donated any money to his campaign and says he was assured of this fact by George B. Cortelyou and Cornelius Newton Bliss, the campaign treasurer.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-08-13
Acting Secretary of State Adee confirms with William Loeb the Department of State’s telegram to President Roosevelt dated August 25 regarding revising the peace message to the Central American presidents.
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1907-08-29
Acting Secretary of State Adee asks William Loeb to inform President Roosevelt that President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz wants Roosevelt’s message to the Central American presidents sent immediately.
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1907-08-28
Acting Secretary of State Adee sent President Roosevelt a translation of the reply from President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico. Due to a filing error, Adee suggests Roosevelt authorize him to dispatch Roosevelt’s message the following day.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-28
President of Mexico Díaz received President Roosevelt’s draft telegram to the presidents of five American republics appealing they settle their differences through a conference. Finding no fault in it, Díaz will also send a similar telegram.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-08-27
Acting Secretary of State Adee revised the peace message to the Central American presidents based on the suggestions of President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Elihu Root.
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1907-08-25
Acting Secretary of State Adee received a message from Mexican diplomat José F. Godoy that President of Mexico Porfirio Porfirio Díaz is intervening to prevent war between Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua and asks the United States to join. Adee includes a draft of a telegram Diaz and President Roosevelt could send to the presidents of the five Central American republics, including Honduras and Costa Rica.
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1907-08-23
David E. Thompson, United States Ambassador to Mexico, writes to President Roosevelt about his suspicions that Edward Henry Harriman was involved in the Guatemalan revolution of the previous year. Two days before, Thompson met with exiled Guatemalan General Manuel L. Barillas who implicated Harriman in the revolution. The following day, Barillas was assassinated. President Porfirio Díaz of Mexico has told Thompson in confidence that he is certain Barillas was assassinated on orders from Guatemalan President Manuel Estrada Cabrera.
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1907-04-08
American Minister to the Dominican Republic McCreery informs Secretary of State Root that Mexican President Porfirio Díaz has called on the presidents of Nicaragua, Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Costa Rica to act in accordance with the United States and Mexico on the matter.
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1907-02-12
John James Jenkins notifies Acting Secretary of State Loomis that he was greeted in Guatemala with a special train at his disposal and invited to the capital. The private secretary of President Manuel Estrada Cabrera requested that Jenkins relay to President Roosevelt that the Guatemalan President desires to be at peace with Salvador. Jenkins states that the presence of Tomás Regalado in Salvador is a menace to the peace of Salvador and to Central America.
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1905-07-03
William Loeb sends Assistant Secretary of State Bacon President Theodore Roosevelt’s acknowledgement of the badge and spike that were sent to him by President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala to commemorate the inauguration of the Interoceanic Railway of Guatemala, which Bacon should forward.
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1908-03-07
President Roosevelt instructs Assistant Secretary of State Bacon on how to handle recent communications between several Central American nations. Bacon should speak to Mexican President Porfirio Díaz and Guatemalan President Manuel Estrada Cabrera to present the message recently received from El Salvador, and encourage Estrada Cabrera to accept.
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1906-07-14
Robert Bacon encloses a copy of a dispatch from President Manuel Estrada Cabrera of Guatemala, detailing his reply to a message expressing congratulations.
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1906-09-06
Philip Brown expresses gratification on behalf of President Roosevelt for the congratulatory telegram from President Estrada Cabrera. Brown also sends appreciation, on behalf of Roosevelt, for the great and friendly services of Estrada Cabrera.
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1906-08-09
Leslie Combs is leaving Guatemala today, where President Manuel Estrada Cabrera has announced a disbanding of the army.
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1906-08-01
Don Juan Barrios Morales writes to Leslie Combs on behalf of Guatemalan President Manuel Estrada Cabrera. Morales expresses gratitude for the aid of the United States in bringing peace to Guatemala and to the republics of El Salvador and Honduras. It is President Roosevelt’s “marked and able diplomacy” that has largely contributed to the “harmony and brotherhood of Central America.”
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1906-07-28
Ambassador Combs has been informed by the President of Guatemala that all prisoners of war not yet exchanged are being returned to El Salvador by ship. Combs also relates that the president is angry at insinuations that the prisoners have been mistreated.
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1906-07-23
Ambassador to Brazil David E. Thompson forwards Secretary of State Root telegrams discussing armistice negotiations in Central America.
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1906-07-19
Rudolph Forster writes to William Loeb about the situation in Guatemala and neighboring nations, including military operations and the progress of talks with Guatemalan delegates.
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1906-07-18
Ambassador to Mexico David E. Thompson sends Secretary of State Elihu Root translations of telegrams given to him by Mexican President Porfirio Díaz between July 12 and July 15. The telegrams reveal Diáz’s efforts to urge the Presidents of Guatemala and El Salvador to agree to an armistice, in hopes of negotiating peace. Thompson notes that if Guatemalan President Estrada Cabrera is suspicious of Diáz’s intentions, President Roosevelt can assure him that Diáz is simply interested in peace for the two countries. Thompson finds Diáz to be sincere and correct in his dealings with both.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-17