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President Roosevelt thanks Minister William Woodville Rockhill for fowarding a speech by Togo. Roosevelt is also grateful for Rockhill’s expert commentary regarding China.
1906-02-20
President Roosevelt confirms receipt of Minister William Woodville Rockhill’s letter recommending William Phillips for a promotion to Secretary of the Legation in China, but tells him that he had already sent in the name of Thomas Ewing Moore. Roosevelt believes Rockhill will find Moore to be an admirable man, and mentions the merit he has shown in other diplomatic postings.
1906-07-14
William Loeb confirms that President Roosevelt received Minister Rockhill’s letter and states that the President accepted Rockhill’s explanation.
1906-11-05
President Roosevelt thanks Minister Rockhill for relaying information on the Dalai Lama. Roosevelt also states that he will not be giving any appointment recommendations to incoming President William H. Taft.
1908-12-17
On the left, captioned “Master and Pupils,” a European officer drills a rag-tag group of disinterested and poorly armed soldiers. On the right, captioned “Pupils and Master,” a diminutive European officer is dwarfed by large, well-equipped, well-trained, and disciplined Chinese soldiers.
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1911-11-29
Theodore Roosevelt discusses progressive legislation, global economics, and capitalism in his speech titled, “The Conservation of Womanhood and Childhood”.
1911-10-10
President Roosevelt informs diplomat William Woodville Rockhill that he felt Rockhill’s account of interviewing the Dalai Lama so important from the standpoint of the British government that he shared the letter with British ambassador to the United States, James Bryce. Roosevelt encloses Bryce’s letter showing Bryce was impressed. Roosevelt says if Rockhill finds out anything that passes between the Lama and the Chinese at Peking to let him know.
1908-09-07
C. Newton Dubs describes tensions associated with religious conversion in China.
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1902-08-02
Headline from a New York Times article about the abdication of Chinese boy Emperor Pu-Yi of the Manchu family allowing for the establishment of a republic.
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1912-02-13
A translation of an imperial edict discussing the relationship between China and America.
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1905-08-31
Secretary of State John Hay asks the United States ambassadors to England, France, and Germany to consult with the Minister of Foreign Affairs in each country. He proposes that if war breaks out between Russia and Japan, the neutral powers encourage the combatants to respect China’s neutrality and limit hostilities so as not to disturb the Chinese people.
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1904-02-08
Commander Folger writes concerning U.S. policy during the Russo-Japanese War and makes recommendations concerning military operations during the conflict.
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1904-02-10
This letter announces the visit of Prince Pulun, the appointed commissioner representing the Chinese Government at the St. Louis Exposition.
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1904-02-03
The Russian newspaper Novoe Vremya claims that war is being brought to Russia by the antagonism of the new world. The United States is seeking world hegemony and is undertaking an anti-Russian campaign.
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1904-02-03
Secretary of State Hay encloses a telegram from Ambassador Edwin H. Conger regarding a letter the Emperor of China wishes to send to President Roosevelt.
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1904-01-19
A. P. Montant asks President Roosevelt to write “a few friendly words” about Frank T. Patterson, who will be traveling to China. Montant also mentions that President Roosevelt’s ailing aunt Elizabeth Norris Emlen Roosevelt is feeling better.
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1904-01-12
Ambassador Conger relays a request by the Chinese government that President Roosevelt reply to a special letter from the Chinese Emperor to be hand-delivered by Prince Pulun, the Emperor’s nephew.
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1904-01-17
Chargé d’Affaires of Britain Spring Rice details to First Lady Roosevelt the economic and political climate in Russia. While Spring Rice sees no immediate stirrings of revolution there, he hints that revolution may still be in Russia’s future because of the unsustainable, poor economic conditions in the rural areas and the dearth of strong, reform-minded leadership within the government. While Spring Rice sees Russia’s Interior Minister, Vi︠a︡cheslav Konstantinovich Pleve, as a capable leader, Pleve opposes reform, and though S. I︠U︡. Vitte, the chairman of the Committee of Ministers is “a strong man, too, and might be a reformer,” Emperor Nicholas II strongly dislikes him. Spring Rice also perceives Russia’s slights of other nations and its aversion to making treaties as hindrances to its government. Additionally, Spring Rice tells Roosevelt of a Russian folk story he has recently translated into English.
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1903-12-09
James Bronson Reynolds informs President of Columbia University Nicholas Murray Butler that, before pursuing studies in the law, he will take a year sabbatical traveling across Europe and in parts of Asia and Africa with Mrs. Reynolds. Reynolds relays that he will visit Gifford Pinchot in Washington, D.C., and inquires about employment possibilities with the National Government.
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1903-12-01
As suggested by the Secretary of State, Cheng Liang writes to William Loeb, inquiring whether Wong Kai Kah, Imperial Chinese Commissioner to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, may call upon President Roosevelt.
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1903-11-02