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President Roosevelt is very busy due to the financial crisis and can only send a short letter to Ambassador Reid thanking him for clippings and speeches. Roosevelt heartily agrees with Reid’s comparison of a story about a New England farmer and the pig and the International Peace Conference at The Hague.
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1907-11-02
President Roosevelt sends Secretary of State Root an article from the London Times, and wonders if the United States should intervene in Venezuela if it does not pay its debts, as decided by the International Peace Conference at the Hague. Roosevelt says he supposes they should decline to meet with the Korean mission if they come to the United States. In a postscript, Roosevelt encloses a copy of the Tokyo Puck, lamenting its sensationalism. Secretary of War William H. Taft is planning a trip to the Philippines, and Roosevelt asks Root’s thoughts on Taft stopping in Siberia or Japan on the way.
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1907-07-29
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Root about his opinion regarding a proposal by Great Britain at the International Peace Conference at the Hague. Roosevelt is inclined to agree with Admiral Charles S. Sperry’s views.
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1907-07-29
President Roosevelt thanks Andrew Carnegie for a clipping of Carnegie’s interview. Roosevelt appreciates Carnegie defending him against George Brinton McClellan Harvey, who recently attacked Roosevelt in the European press, but believes Carnegie attaches more importance to Harvey than Roosevelt does. Roosevelt is more concerned about keeping peace with Japan than with the International Peace Conference underway at The Hague.
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1907-07-15
President Roosevelt discusses several topics with Secretary of State Root. Roosevelt had intended to appoint William Penn Duvall to Quartermaster General, but Secretary of War William H. Taft strongly recommended James Buchanan Aleshire instead. Roosevelt has called upon Attorney General Charles J. Bonaparte to investigate the difficulties of Japanese immigrants in San Francisco. Roosevelt has been hearing “howls” over an agreement with Germany. Roosevelt feels Andrew Carnegie’s New York peace conference has weakened the United States’ chances at the International Peace Conference at the Hague, and so has not been following developments there.
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1907-07-02
President Roosevelt shares his thoughts on various topics with Cecil Spring Rice. Roosevelt is planning to swap foreign assignments between John B. Jackson and Richmond Pearson, mentioning that Pearson had trouble with missionaries in Persia. While Jackson has done well as Minister to Greece, Roosevelt does not approve of his strong pro-Russia feelings. Roosevelt thinks the Russian people are good, and feels badly that they oscillate between despotism and anarchy. Roosevelt is interested in what Spring Rice says about the movement of Islam in Persia toward more tolerance, and gives his opinion about progress in Islamic countries in relation to Buddhism and Shinto. The violent incidents in San Francisco towards Japanese immigrants concerns Roosevelt. Roosevelt thinks everyone should be in favor of peace and temperance, but he feels professional advocates of both talk a lot without ever getting anything done. At home, Roosevelt is trying to keep a balance between plutocrats and labor unions. Roosevelt hopes to see Spring Rice and his wife soon.
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1907-07-01
President Roosevelt introduces Baron Paul-Henri-Benjamin Balluet, Estournelles de Constant to A. Lawrence Lowell.
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 is pleased by what Andrew Carnegie is going to do for the Bureau of American Republics, and believes he has done something similar for the Hague Peace Conference. His gifts significantly aid the cause of peace for both hemispheres.
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1907-01-02
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