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President Roosevelt introduces Baron Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, Estournelles de Constant to A. Lawrence Lowell.
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1907-04-11
President Roosevelt introduces Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, Baron d’ Estournelles de Constant to Judge Robert Grant.
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1907-04-11
President Roosevelt cannot attend the peace conference in person, but will send a letter. He plans on quoting Saint Paul, as Abbott quoted in his previous letter.
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1907-04-02
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.
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1906-08-06
President Roosevelt apologizes to G. Willett Van Nest that the appointments of delegates to the Second Hague Conference have already been made, and that even if a vacancy arises he does not think he could appoint another person from New York, as Joseph Hodges Choate and Horace Porter are both from there.
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1906-04-24
President Roosevelt tells Bishop Brown that he will take up the case of Schicker, but cautions that he does not personally deal with minor appointments. He personally concerns himself with appointments like that of Uriah M. Rose, who has been appointed to represent the United States at the Hague conference.
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1906-02-14
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
Senator James P. Clarke believes that Judge Uriah M. Rose would be an ideal man for either The Hague Conference or the Pan-American Conference. Rose impressed President Roosevelt when he visited Little Rock, Arkansas, and unless Secretary of State Root objects, Roosevelt would like Rose to attend the Hague Conference.
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1906-01-18
President Roosevelt thinks Oscar S. Straus’s suggestions regarding the “Armenian matter” are admirable. Roosevelt will call a second conference at The Hague and all questions and requests regarding Armenia will be brought before that conference.
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1904-09-28
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.
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1915-07-27
Seth Low reviews President Roosevelt’s administration, listing his many achievements as president. Low wishes Roosevelt success in Africa and hopes he will return ready to continue serving the country.
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1909-02-27
Rear Admiral Sperry responds to President Roosevelt’s intent to send an official letter of praise to the Navy Department regarding Sperry’s command of the Great White Fleet. Sperry suggests including additional highlights of his career, such as his contribution to the discussion of maritime law at the second Hague Peace Conference in 1907. Sperry expresses a desire to retire from his commander duties and be appointed to an internal waterways commission.
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1909-02-25
Ambassador Reid encloses some news clippings he thought might be of interest to President Roosevelt. Reid is happy to have avoided the recent International Peace Conference at the Hague, which he sees as largely ineffectual for the United States, but perhaps less so for England or Germany.
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1907-10-21
Rudolph Forster forwards a telegram from Mexican President Porfirio Díaz. A group of Central American republics have agreed to hold their proposed conference in Washington in early November. Díaz approves of the telegrams President Roosevelt has sent him thus far and hopes they will both send their messages to the Central American presidents tomorrow. William Loeb adds a handwritten note at the bottom that the State Department is being asked to send these messages.
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1907-09-21
Ambassador Reid quickly replies to President Roosevelt before going grouse-shooting in Scotland. Reid closed the modus vivendi regarding Newfoundland fisheries, but is waiting to formally execute it based on Premier of Newfoundland Robert Bond’s response. Regarding Joseph Hodges Choate and the immunity of private property at sea, Reid sees no reason for follow-up as Choate was likely misled by poor information. He briefly mentions France’s “hornet’s nest” in Morocco.
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1907-08-11
Ambassador Reid sends an addition to “the bundle of gossip” he recently sent to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, noting that this dispatch is a bit more serious and more likely to interest President Roosevelt with his description of a number of political events, in addition to more social fare.
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1907-08-01
Andrew Carnegie updates President Roosevelt on matters in Great Britain. Carnegie says Roosevelt’s handling of the “Japanese flurry” was masterful, and says Japan will not make any more trouble due to her financial status. Carnegie notes that many countries are restricting entry to Japanese citizens, and that Roosevelt has solved the problem. Carnegie comments on the stances of Great Britain and Germany at the International Peace Conference at The Hague.
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1907-07-31
Ambassador Reid updates President Roosevelt on the activities of the American Embassy in London. Reid has attended and given some short speeches at the dedication of memorials related to Harvard or Yale alumni, noting that relationships forged though the universities strengthens ties between Great Britain and the United States. Reid has made a proposal for the arbitration between the United States and Great Britain regarding fisheries off of Newfoundland. Arthur F. Winnington Ingram, the Bishop of London, is looking forward to visiting the United States and will be present when Roosevelt dedicates a lecturn to Bruton Parish Church. King Edward VII and Parliament are still at work until August, but the current Parliament has not yet achieved much in the way of legislation. Reid describes the King and British people’s reactions to the International Peace Conference at The Hague, and the prevailing attitude about the immunity of private property at sea. Finally, Reid describes some press coverage at the recent 4th of July events at the Embassy.
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1907-07-19
James Roosevelt Roosevelt sends President Roosevelt an article from the London Times about American relations with Venezuela, which he finds interesting because it is slightly sarcastic towards the United States. James hopes the Korean Mission to the peace conference at The Hague will not go to the United States, as newspaper coverage of such a visit would antagonize Japan.
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1907-07-18
Ambassador to Great Britain Reid has received photographs of President Roosevelt show jumping a horse, and will present them to King Edward VII when there are fewer dignitaries in town. Reid is amused by Roosevelt’s remark that he was not sure if his “encounter” with labor leaders and socialists was covered in the English papers – Reid describes the coverage as mostly in Roosevelt’s favor, adding his thoughts on the danger of anarchist ideas infiltrating labor movements in the United States and abroad. Reid discusses the similarity between the conflict between California and Japan and Newfoundland and the United States. Finally, Reid comments on the ongoing talks at the International Peace Conference at the Hague.
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1907-06-07