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President Roosevelt thanks W. Laird Clowes for the letter and believes that they have both done their part in the matter.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-09-28
President Roosevelt met with Hermann Speck von Sternburg, evidently inspired by Berlin, who suggested that the United States join the European Great Powers in forming a “syndicate” to take possession of Venezuela’s finances. Sternburg thinks that such action would settle the situation in Venezuela and prevent future punitive expeditions by European nations to collect debts. Roosevelt did not provide a definitive answer but expressed his opinion that the American people would oppose such a proposal and consider it a violation of the Monroe Doctrine.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-03-13
President Roosevelt is selecting the three members of the Commission that will investigate the conditions and uses of the waters adjacent to the boundary between the United States and Canada. Loeb asks whether George Clinton can accept the lawyer appointment laid out in the River and Harbor Appropriation Act.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-06-18
Theodore Roosevelt asks Henry Cabot Lodge if he previously wrote to Lodge in detail about his handling of the Algeciras Conference and the Alaskan Boundary dispute. If this is the case, Roosevelt requests to see the letters.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1916-01-15
President Roosevelt thanks President Pena of Brazil for his kind message and hospitality regarding the sailors and United States fleet in Rio de Janeiro.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-01-15
President Roosevelt assures David E. Thompson, United States Ambassador to Mexico, that he “took exactly the right course.” Roosevelt’s message to President of Mexico Porfirio Díaz was unofficial and informal. Roosevelt does want Mexico, Brazil, Chile, and Argentina working together “to secure the peaceful and orderly development of the less fortunate tropical American countries,” but this is not ready for formal negotiation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-03-12
President Roosevelt tells Uriah M. Rose that he is confident in his abilities to represent the United States as a delegate to the Hague Peace Conference.
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1906-02-08
President Roosevelt agrees with Elihu Root’s comments regarding corruption in New York and he is pleased that the speech will be published. The Republican Party and the country benefited from the work of Senator Hanna and his death is “very sad.” The Panama treaty appears set to pass and the cooperation with Germany on securing the neutrality of China was a success.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-16
List of American members of the League of International Conciliation.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907
Newton I. Woodworth would like to be involved in the effort to maintain universal peace. He has written to Senator Elihu Root offering his services, but would like Theodore Roosevelt to suggest to Root how he could be useful.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-02-11
Bishop Brent defends the success of the International Opium Commission, of which he was President. He wanted to secure unanimity on the resolutions it passed, and so could not be as stringent as he wanted due to the interests of Great Britain. He encourages President Taft to push the matter of the International Opium Conference.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-12-29
Representative Bennet reports to Senator Lodge from Greece on the practices of steamship companies taking immigrants to the United States. In light of current restrictive health inspections at Ellis Island, Greek officials and heads of steamship companies are carrying out more stringent health inspections before the ships depart. This has drastically reduced the number of immigrants turned away in the United States. Bennet suggests that it may be an opportune time to cooperate with Greece to exclude “undesirable” Greek immigrants from coming to the United States.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-03
James Edmund Dunning encloses a circular with details about the upcoming International Peace Congress scheduled from September 15 to September 22 in Milan, Italy. Dunning suggests that President Roosevelt cable a message to the Congress, which he feels would “have an effect in several right ways.”
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1906-08-29
Maria Lydia Winkler unsuccessfully tried to arrange a meeting with President Roosevelt through the German embassy, but was encouraged by Commissioner General of Immigration Frank P. Sargent to contact Roosevelt through William Loeb. She shares an invitation of the German National Committee for the Suppression of the White Slave Traffic to organize a similar committee in the United States and join the international congress. Many social purity societies in the United States have expressed their support for the plan, and Winkler hopes that a representative of the Bureau of Immigration would be allowed to be connected with the movement.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-07-31
Senator Estournelles de Constant sends a list of signatures of French diplomats in favor of the court in the Hague.
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1906-04-12
Uriah M. Rose writes to President Roosevelt regarding his appointment as a delegate for the upcoming Peace Conference at The Hague. Rose thanks Roosevelt for this honor and mentions that he will be available in the winter or spring for a conference in Washington, D.C., if necessary.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-02-05
Sir Horace Curzon Plunkett sends President Roosevelt a confidential letter containing some suggestions relating to the coordination of the Federal and State Departments of Agriculture that he suggested. Plunkett believes such cooperation would be welcomed by interested parties both within the United States and in Europe, where some departments take advantage of the publications produced by the Department of Agriculture. He suggests Roosevelt invite the various states to send delegates to a national conference held by the Department of Agriculture to help spur this cooperation. He suggests that the experience of the Irish Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction may be of use to Roosevelt, and proposes to bring the chief officer of the department with him when he visits the United States in the upcoming fall.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-06-22
Secretary of State Root informs President Roosevelt that he has been in contact with the Russian Government regarding “relations between the proposed Red Cross convention and Hague conference.” Root feels it is best to let Czar Nicholas II take the initiative in order to avoid any potential personal conflicts.
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1905-12-16
President Roosevelt transmits a letter from Secretary of State Elihu Root outlining an international commission between the United States and a variety of countries. The commission aims to investigate and eradicate the “opium evil.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-05-11
Film of French actress, Sarah Bernhardt, speaking at Prospect Park, New York, July 4, 1917, on behalf of French-American cooperation in the war effort. Addressing more than 50,000 people gathered around a decorated music platform, Bernhardt stands and speaks from an open touring car parked in front of the platform. Medium close shot of Bernhardt speaking and gesturing, with man who may be her personal physician, Dr. Felix Marot, and woman who is probably her secretary and translator, Miss Elizabeth Ormsby, seated in car.
Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound
1917