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Manuel Delgado, El Salvador’s Minister of Foreign Relations and Justice, is pleased to receive President Roosevelt’s offer to mediate a Pacific settlement between Honduras and Nicaragua. Delgado informs Secretary of State Root that President Pedro Jose Escalon conveyed this offer to Presidents Manuel Bonilla and José Santos Zelaya.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-02-12
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Straus congratulates President Roosevelt on his success in recent “humanitarian diplomacy.” Straus is confident that Roosevelt’s efforts will bring peace.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1905-06-14
President Roosevelt would like to designate Oscar S. Straus as one of the four United States members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration as outlined by the Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1902-01-09
Ambassador Reid sends President Roosevelt a clipping from the Spectator about the Algeciras Conference. Reid also discusses members of the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1906-04-02
A winged female figure labeled “Peace” sits on one side of a mountain pass, and Mars, the Roman god of war, sits on the opposite side. A man wearing a crown and robe labeled “Czar” is walking down the path, carrying a large candle snuffer labeled “Peace Congress” that he hopes to use to extinguish a volcano labeled “War” that is erupting in the distance. He must pass through areas that are heavily armed with munitions and bearing the countenances of several foreign rulers.
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-06-21
Print shows German Emperor William II talking on a telephone labeled “To the Hague.” He is holding papers that state, “Plan of Arbitration Submitted by the United States.” He is wearing armor and a robe, his sword is between his legs, and a halo is fixed over his head. Caption: Emperor William (to German Peace Commissioners): Bombenelement!!! Be careful about that arbitration talk! What would become of my divine right? The decrees of God can not be arbitrated!
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs
1899-07-05
Lawrence F. Abbott is pleased with the Alaskan boundary decision as it lays a practical basis for the arbitration of international disputes and “adds lustre” to the State Department of President Theodore Roosevelt’s administration. Abbott returns a newspaper clipping and is pleased to see that some Mississippians recognize the “value of high standards in political life.”
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1903-10-30