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Lord Lansdowne and the American Impact on British Diplomacy, 1900-1905

Lord Lansdowne and the American Impact on British Diplomacy, 1900-1905

Lyle A. McGeoch examines the state of relations between the United States and Great Britain when Lord Lansdowne served as Britain’s foreign secretary from November 1900 to December 1905. He highlights the negotiations concerning the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, the settlement of a boundary dispute between Canada and the United States, and a crisis stemming from Venezuela’s debt to Great Britain and Germany. McGeogh also looks at how Lansdowne struggled with the appointment of an ambassador to the United States, his difficulty at times in dealing with the personal style of diplomacy employed by President Theodore Roosevelt, and Lansdowne’s recognition of growing American power in the first decade of the twentieth century.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal

Creation Date

1979

British benevolence

British benevolence

Print shows an oversized British Lion wearing boxing gloves labeled “Army” and “Navy,” standing over its most recent victim labeled “Egyptian.” Trailing off to the left are other victims labeled “Ashantee, Afghan, Boer, [and] Zulu.” Standing on the right is a diminutive Irishman pulling on boxing gloves labeled “Fenian.” Caption: “It is painful to be obliged to use force against the weak.” –Earl Granville in House of Lords.

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-07-19

Too weak to fight – too old to run

Too weak to fight – too old to run

The British Lion carries W. E. Gladstone, dressed as a woman, on his back, as they head into the sea after departing the “British Consul” in advance of “Anarchy, Riot, [and] Bloodshed.” The lion is labeled “Moral Complicity, British Prestige, Peril, Profits, [and] Responsibilities.” Gladstone’s dress is labeled “Vacillation, Procrastination, Irish Trouble, [and] Timidity.” On the shore is a set of jaws labeled “Brag & Bluster,” and the lion is stepping on a gunboat labeled “Thunderer.”

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1882-06-21