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President Roosevelt tells Horace G. Knowles that the positions in Mexico and Belgium have been acceptably filled, and that Senator J. Frank Allee should already know this fact. Roosevelt is working on securing a European post for Knowles, and will probably be able to offer a post in Romania soon.
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1906-12-17
Robert Roberts Hitt notifies William Loeb that the wish communicated by Loeb in reference to the Roumanian Mission can be carried out.
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1905-01-09
Endicott Peabody hopes President Roosevelt can appoint Thomas Ewing Moore as Secretary of Legation for Romania.
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1905-01-04
A puppeteer labeled “Russia” with marionettes labeled “Bulgaria” and “Macedonia” engage in a sword fight. The Bulgarian puppet is about to cut the head off the Macedonian puppet who has dropped his sword. Hanging on the side of the theater, to the left, are three puppets labeled “Roumelia, Servia, [and] Roumania.” Caption: A continuous performance since Peter, the Great.
It was not a mere hobby-horse of Puck cartoonists and editorial writers, but other publications, diplomats, and the world at large, to take note of Czarist Russia’s adventurous and irresponsible actions on the world stage in the first years of the twentieth century. Czar Nicholas’s own cousins, German Emperor William II and English King Edward VII, routinely were wary of Imperial Russia’s intentions, and irrational policies.
Brutal suppression of growing domestic dissent, persecution of religious and ethnic minorities, economic mismanagement, and rudderless interventionism abroad — all made for Russia to be the powder-keg that history now knows it to have been. At the time of this cartoon, Russia thought it was filling a vacuum in Manchuria following the agreements after the Boxer Rebellion and considered it safe to challenge Japan over disputed islands and ports in its far East. It was not safe; they quietly pleaded for international assistance to negotiate an end to the ensuing war, and it came in the person of President Roosevelt.
President Roosevelt provides Secretary of State Hay with a list of appointments in the diplomatic and consular service after March 4, 1905. Roosevelt includes a handwritten note, “All this is tentative.”
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1904-12-17
President Roosevelt finds the memorandum to the Romanian government admirable and asks if it would be proper to host the various princes at Sagamore Hill. Roosevelt is concerned over Consul General Bragg’s indiscretion and feels that he might need to be removed from Cuba.
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1902-07-18
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Serbian Minister Michailovitch’s opinion regarding the importance of July 28, 1914, and argues that beyond simply being the day Germany and its ally Austria-Hungary began the great war, July 28 further raised the question of how the world should deal with the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Roosevelt feels there can be no peace unless the Austro-Hungarian Empire is broken up and its constituent nationalities are given their own states, and mentions also that the Ottoman empire should be similarly divided. The United States should do what it can to assist in this effort by encouraging the revolt of subject peoples and pledging to protect them. Future peace depends on Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and Turkey being soundly defeated, and Roosevelt believes Europe should be remade “on the basis of the principle of nationalities.”
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1918-07-11
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Joseph Leis for the pamphlet concerning the German monopoly of petroleum sent to Theodore Roosevelt. He writes that Roosevelt is pleased with the work King Carol I has done to curb Standard Oil Trust in Romania.
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1912-05-09
Theodore Roosevelt thanks N. N. Herjeu for sending a copy of the ‘Bibliotec’ (Bibliotheca) “Apollo” and is pleased that Herjeu translated his articles into Romanian, as he has long been interested in the Romanian people.
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1911-09-15
President Roosevelt thanks Prince Rudolph Kretzulesco for the books on the history of Romania and appreciates that Kretzulesco remembered his interest in the subject matter.
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1909-02-23
President Roosevelt informs President-Elect Taft that he will see Austrian Ambassador Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár at once to clear up the issue. Some newspapers had reported that Taft and his wife, Helen Herron Taft, had sent a message to a Serbian women’s association, and while it did not seem serious apparently invited anxiety in Austria-Hungary. Roosevelt teases Taft that while he is making up his cabinet, Roosevelt spent the morning testing the rifles for his African safari, and says that “life has compensations!” In a handwritten note at the end, Roosevelt comments on Spencer F. Eddy, who is currently envoy to Romania.
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1908-12-31
President Roosevelt tells President-Elect Taft that he was recently approached by Austrian Ambassador Ladislaus Hengelmüller von Hengervár, who was concerned about a telegram that Taft and his wife, Helen Herron Taft, allegedly sent to the Serbians. While Roosevelt does not know anything about the incident, he offers his opinion on the situation in the Balkans, and says that the Austro-Hungarian empire has done a good job governing Bosnia and Herzegovina, and that immediate annexation of these states to Serbia would be a disaster.
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1908-12-29
President Roosevelt explains he is trying to get a legation for Romania and Serbia established. If he is successful, the post will go to Consul General at Cairo, Egypt, John Wallace Riddle. Roosevelt tells Endicott Peabody he might be able to make Thomas Ewing Moore Secretary of Legation under Riddle, but he is not sure.
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1904-12-27
President Roosevelt asks Secretary of State Hay if Thomas Ewing Moore, consul at Weimar, Germany, can be made secretary of legation under John Wallace Riddle as minister if the United States gets an embassy in Romania. Roosevelt encloses a letter from Endicott Peabody recommending Moore.
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1904-12-27
President Roosevelt writes to Joseph Gurney Cannon, Chairman of the Notification Committee, to formally accept his nomination as the Republican presidential candidate and to approve the platform adopted by the Republican National Convention. In the letter, Roosevelt provides a comprehensive defense of his foreign and domestic policies and outlines what he believes are the major differences between the Republican and Democratic parties in the upcoming election. Roosevelt discusses, among other topics, his position on international relations, antitrust legislation, tariffs, the gold standard, pensions for Civil War veterans, the military, civil service, commerce, agriculture, taxation, and self-government in the Philippines.
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1904-09-12
President Roosevelt asks if it would be possible to have the Minister, when in Romania, look into what has been accomplished concerning the Romanian Jews.
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1903-03-04
Simon Wolf can view Secretary of State Hay’s dispatch to Romania by speaking with Acting Secretary of State Hill. President Roosevelt is still working on the Russian matter.
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1902-07-22
King Carol I acknowledges President Roosevelt’s message of congratulations on his 40th anniversary on the throne of Romania.
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1906-05-30
S. Hartman discusses the worldwide oppression of Jews, which is especially prevalent in Romania and Russia in a letter to Theodore Roosevelt. Believing in Roosevelt wide-reaching influence, Hartman pleads with him to “interest yourself in behalf of these deeply afflicted people.”
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1911-03-30
Horace G. Knowles, United States Minister to Serbia and Romania, sends Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt an autographed photograph of Elizabeth of Wied, Queen of Romania. The Queen appreciated the autographed photograph of Edith, and wanted to return the favor, but fell ill for some time, which delayed the response. Knowles asks William Loeb to remind President Roosevelt, when he begins planning for his African safari, that there are deluxe trains from Paris and Berlin to Bucharest and Costanza, from which Roosevelt could take a ship to Alexandria. Knowles also asks Loeb to give his congratulations to Roosevelt on the results of the Republican National Convention and the nomination of Secretary of War William H. Taft as Republican candidate for president.
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1908-06-27