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Dr. Alexander Lambert writes to President Roosevelt that he has a patient under his care by the name of Stephen F. Moriarty who is a stated representative of a Russian construction government working under concessions from the Russian government. Moriarty is hoping to get an interview with President Roosevelt.
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1907-01-01
A postcard from Baron and Baroness Kaneko wishing President Roosevelt a merry Christmas and happy New Year.
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1906-12
President Roosevelt handled the Bellamy Storer affair exactly as John St. Loe Strachey expected. Strachey hopes that the Americans are able to make a model treaty with the Japanese, as he believes that England may confront similar issues soon. Strachey and his wife are traveling to Berlin to visit friends and he asks for a letter of introduction to Ambassador Charlemagne Tower. Strachey also asks Roosevelt what he thought about his recent article in the Spectator about the proposal to create representative government in India. In a handwritten postscript, Strachey mentions that he received a “capital letter” from General Leonard Wood, and he hopes to meet Wood in the United States.
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1906-12-31
Arthur Hamilton Lee is hopeful that James Bryce will prove to be more useful in Washington, D.C., than his predecessor, H. Mortimer Durand. He has been talking to King Edward VII about Anglo-American affairs and summarized what happened in the Russo-Japanese negotiations for peace. The King was excited to hear of peaceful intentions and attitudes emanating from the United States. Looking back on it, Lee is grateful for the opportunity to frame President Roosevelt in a good light for the King. Lee is proud in general of what he has been able to orchestrate mostly out of the eye of the public.
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1906-12-24
Ambassasor Jusserand writes to Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt requesting his Christmas gift of postcards to Theodore Roosevelt be secretly added to the President’s gifts. Jusserand writes a humorous list of gifts that Roosevelt may be receiving. He wishes Theodore Roosevelt, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, and their family a happy holiday season.
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1906-12-24
John R. Carter encloses a newspaper clipping relating to the affairs of the Congo. He informs President Roosevelt that Parliament has accomplished little of international interest, because of their focus on Augustine Birrell’s Education Bill. Newspapers have been focusing on James Bryce’s appointment as ambassador to Washington, which Carter supports. Carter notes that Secretary of State Elihu Root’s request for coal supplies on the Potomac was quickly fulfilled.
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1906-12-21
Secretary of War Taft forwards to President Roosevelt a cable from Governor-General of the Philippines James Francis Smith, which explains that sympathizers abroad plan on demanding the immediate decolonization of the Philippines by the United States. However, Taft is unconcerned.
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1906-12-19
United States Ambassador to Uruguay O’Brien encloses “Mr. Roosevelt and Senor Batile y Ordonez,” an El Dia article about an interview granted to the Uruguayan Charge d’ Affaires Pedro Requena Bermúdez by President Theodore Roosevelt, at which the former presented a photograph of President Ordonez to President Roosevelt.
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1906-12-19
The article, published in El Dia, quotes the New York Herald‘s description of the visit to the White House by the Chargé d’Affaires of the Uruguayan Legation, Pedro Requena Bermúdez. The El Dia article also includes a favorable description of President Roosevelt’s reception of Bermúdez and his appreciation for the photograph of Uruguayan President Batlle y Ordóñez. A translation accompanies the article.
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1906-12-19
William Emlen Roosevelt explains to President Roosevelt that they have decided to lay the cable and would like to have it finished before hurricane season. Laying this cable is in line with the War Department’s vision for better communication between the Panama Canal and Washington D.C.
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1906-12-13
Assistant Secretary of State Bacon is honored to forward to President Roosevelt a dispatch concerning the qualifications of Alan Johnstone for the British ambassadorship at Washington.
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1906-12-12
Ambassador Reid informs President Roosevelt of his travel plans and his intention to deliver a letter to Roosevelt from Sir Edward Grey. Reid sends Roosevelt an editorial and a report published in the London Times on Roosevelt’s message. Reid also mentions that the British government have not yet found someone for the position of Ambassador to the United States. Sir Gerald Lowther is no longer under consideration for the position.
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1906-12-11
Nicholas Murray Butler tells President Roosevelt about the League for International Conciliation, organized by Senator Estournelles de Constant of France. Butler hopes that Roosevelt’s Nobel Prize fund might support this group, or at least not work in opposition to it. Butler is in charge of organizing American membership in the organization, has already arranged a conference with Andrew Carnegie and Congressman Richard Bartholdt, and reports that there is enthusiasm from many different people within the United States. He encloses a list of the membership in the League thus far.
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1906-12-11
A statement regarding Japanese-U.S. relations based on an interview with Ambassador Charles S. Francis by an editor of the Vienna newspaper, Neue Freie Presse. Francis does not believe that the barring of Japanese children in San Francisco schools will have a negative impact on the friendly relationship between the United States and Japan.
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1906-12-11
David Starr Jordan apologizes for the labor unions in San Francisco. Unfortunately, the school board exerts almost complete control over who can enroll in the local schools and has segregated Japanese children. Jordan advises Kakichi Mitsukuri that the Japanese government should continue to limit the immigration to the United States, despite the fact that Hawaii is in desperate need of labor. Jordan believes that those who immigrate to Hawaii only stay for a short period of time and then quickly move to San Francisco, which is only making the situation worse. Japan in moving forward with these negotiations should never accept an inferior position. President Roosevelt aims to treat them fairly.
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1906-12-10
William Woodville Rockhill sends a confidential message from the Emperor of China to President Roosevelt expressing gratitude for Roosevelt’s proclamation that China’s territorial integrity and sovereignty should be preserved. The Emperor of China hopes that Roosevelt will remember these words and protect the territorial rights of China in Manchuria during the upcoming peace negotiations between Japan and Russia. China will not send a representative to Washington to take part in the negotiations.
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1905-07-05
Tokutaro Sakai writes to William Loeb, thanking President Roosevelt on behalf of Baron Kentaro Kaneko for the invitation to stay with the president at Oyster Bay. Kaneko will take the train from Long Island City to Oyster Bay on Friday, as suggested by Loeb.
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1905-07-03
Ambassador O’Brien provides Acting Secretary of State Peirce with a translation of an article which appeared in the Danish newspaper, Politiken. The article suggests that the purchase of the Danish West Indies will come up in the next session of Congress.
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1905-07-03
William Loeb writes to Assistant Secretary of State Forster asking him to forward a message to Japanese Minister Kogoro Takahira. The message mentions President Roosevelt’s gratitude for receiving Takahira’s letter and Roosevelt’s intention to not broadcast the plans for an armistice.
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1905-07-03
Assistant Secretary of State Forster writes to William Loeb about a message he received from Ambassador George von Lengerke Meyer, who discusses President Roosevelt’s plans to announce the plenipotentiary nominations. Meyer mentions that he expects more information about the delegates from Foreign Minister Lamzdorf, and he goes on to share Lamzdorf’s opinion about the plans for an armistice.
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1905-07-02