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Cecil Spring Rice was glad to receive Theodore Roosevelt’s letter and to hear about Kermit Roosevelt. Rice enjoys seeing Roosevelt as a grandfather. He discusses the adjustment from the “strenuous life” to a “quiet” life. Rice also gives his opinion on contemporary politics in America and England.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-09-24
Legal and historic information on international arbitration treaties, particularly efforts to secure a treaty between the United States and Great Britain.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-04-05
President Roosevelt wishes the United States did not have the custom forbidding the President from going abroad, as he believes he could be of help at the Hague conference mediating between Kaiser William II of Germany and the authorities of France and England. Roosevelt tells Andrew Carnegie that he hopes to see progress from the peace conference, including a stop or a slowing of the current arms race. He comments, however, that without a real system of international police countries are not able to entirely demilitarize. Rosevelt has been disappointed by the lack of support from the American peace movement for the passage of arbitration treaties. The Pan-American Conference has gone well, and Roosevelt hopes the Senate will ratify the Santo Domingo treaty.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-08-06
In the case of the Republic of Colombia vs. Panama Canal Company, the First Civil Tribunal of the Seine found in favor of the defendants. Colombia’s complaint is not receivable.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-03-31
James Brown Scott acquired a copy of Ordeal by Battle by Frederick Scott Oliver at the recommendation of Theodore Roosevelt. He lays out the case for intervention on the part of the United States in World War I, citing international law established at the Hague Peace Conferences, Germany’s violation of Belgian neutrality, and the history of similar cases such as the 1861 Trent Affair.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1915-07-27
Hamilton Wright informs Theodore Roosevelt that one of his policies is coming to a successful conclusion, and that the International Opium Commission has been successful in calling for an International Opium Conference to be held at The Hague. He comments that Roosevelt “placed a very tough problem in my hands,” but now hopes that the question will soon be settled by international law. Wright sends a copy of the report of the commission under separate cover.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1910-08-03
British Ambassador to the United States Bryce explains at length in a letter to Acting Secretary of State Adee that the United States schooner, Alert, had no right to fish in Canada.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-07-03
The Cuban revolutionary party, through their New York junta, have chosen Captain Charles Cassilly Cook of Ohio as their new legal counsel. Cook’s past appointments include president of the Ohio Board of Pardons and Captain of the First Ohio Infantry during the Spanish-American War. Cook is a well-known clubman from a prominent Cincinnati family, formerly a Democrat. As a lawyer, he has written on topics including insurgent soldiery in Cuba, and the heresy of the financial theories of both William Jennings Bryan as well as Coin’s Financial School, written by William Hope Harvey.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-09-27
President Roosevelt—It—wears a number of signs: “imperialism,” “protection for monopoly,” “personal orders substituted for acts of Congress,” “militarism,” “extravagance,” “my Cortelyou—the fat fryer,” “standpatism,” and “promotion of personal favorites.” His “party” and “despotism” legs crush “international law” and “the Constitution of the United States.” He holds “the big stick” in one hand and a revolver in the other.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-08-03
President Roosevelt recklessly drives the Republican elephant forward, hauling the “Panama or Bust” wagon. A “Panama Republic” infant sits beside him and drinks from a “$10,000,000 for right of way” bottle. The wagon bounces over several rocks in the road as it travels, including: “precedent,” “Colombian protest,” “international law,” and “treaty.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-11-22
This French printing of Secretary of State Elihu Root’s presidential address before the second annual meeting of the American Society of International Law discusses the basis for international law. Like municipal law, international law is best enforced by the sanction of public opinion, as expressed in individual opinions in the nations. Root suggests that the best way to promote international law is to promote public support of international law in lieu of creating armies and navies.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1908-07
William Nelson Cromwell discusses the status of suits brought by Colombia and by French engineer Lucien N. B. Wyse for an injunction against transfer of the Panama Canal to the United States, and expresses confidence that suits will be dismissed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-27
William Nelson Cromwell discusses the status of suits brought by Colombia and by French engineer Lucien N. B. Wyse for an injunction against transfer of the Panama Canal to the United States, and expresses confidence that suits will be dismissed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-03-27
Theodore Roosevelt lays out the duties of the United States as a member of an international community, which include securing the safety and rights of our citizens at home and abroad, guarding the honor and upholding the just influence of our nation, and maintaining the integrity of international law. He insists that the United States should try to maintain peace, but believes there are “higher things which we must keep, if need be at the price of war.” Roosevelt believes military preparedness and a strong sense of nationalism are critical, but notes that patriotism cannot develop in members of a class that is being oppressed. Therefore, the protection of the working class is necessary, as a country “must be worth living in, to be worth dying for.”
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President Roosevelt lays out guidelines for American neutrality during the Russo-Japanese War.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-02-15
General Reyes transmits the Colombian government’s report concerning American policy towards Colombia and the revolution in Panama. He lists the treaties and instances where the United States has shown a disregard for Colombia’s territorial rights and has taken advantage of their weakened state.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1904-01-06
Frederick William Holls is concerned about the Alaskan boundary agreement and insists that under international law the agreement constitutes an attempt at arbitration. Holls fears the political effects of the treaty and would like to discuss the issue further with President Roosevelt.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-02-02
Secretary of State Hay encloses two conventions and one resolution from the Hague Peace Conferences that have received the consent of the Senate. The acts were previously ratified by President William McKinley but their proclamation had been delayed.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1901-11-01