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David Jayne Hill asks to come to see Theodore Roosevelt in New York upon his return from Switzerland in November. He and his wife, who will not be joining him on his journey to the United States, wish Roosevelt and Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt well.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1911-10-07
Acting Secretary of State Loomis forwards to William Loeb information on a commercial treaty involving Switzerland and Germany.
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1905-06-14
Charles Bonaparte writes to President Roosevelt about two diplomats, Thomas Willing Peters and Talbot J. Albert. Peters, who was consul at St. Gall, Switzerland, desires a new appointment at Ottawa, Canada. Albert, who was consul at Brunswick, Germany, desires to have his term extended.
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1905-01-01
Writing from Samadan in Croatia, Theodore Roosevelt informs his sister Anna of his and Alice Lee Roosevelt’s continuing travels on their honeymoon. He describes their first “alpine travel” and says they enjoyed Switzerland the most so far. He reminisces about traveling with Anna in Switzerland in their youth.
1881-07-03
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
Theodore Roosevelt’s secretary thanks Isaac Stussi for the letter he sent to Roosevelt.
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1912-06-20
Theodore Roosevelt is finding it difficult to be courteous to his Outlook colleagues due to their “unutterably silly” views on the arbitration treaties. They want to agree to arbitrate everything because it is unlikely that the issues that the United States would refuse to arbitrate will ever be submitted for arbitration. Roosevelt compares the issue to the tense situation in Europe that he believes will only be peacefully resolved if Germany concludes that France is willing to fight and Great Britain is ready to provide support. He knows that the German war plans involve flank marches through Belgium and Switzerland even though Germany has treaties with these nations guaranteeing their territories.
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1911-09-12
Theodore Roosevelt will read the papers sent by Ralph Duniway of Portland, Oregon. However, Roosevelt holds strongly that pure democracy in the sense that Duniway uses the word is one of the forms of republican government. Roosevelt also asserts that it is absurd to deny that Switzerland is a republic.
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1911-07-25
Theodore Roosevelt clarifies the Swiss measure he referred to in a recent article. The bill would have required the insuring of employees against sickness and accident, and was rejected in a referendum in 1900. However, he misstated that the bill was proposed to the federal legislature through the use of that initiative.
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1911-02-08
Theodore Roosevelt defends the shipping of munitions to the allies as this is allowed by the Hague Conventions. This provision was demanded by Germany on behalf of the Krupp family. Roosevelt also defends Belgian neutrality and compares Belgium’s situation to the neutrality of Albert Kuhn’s native Switzerland. Kuhn’s duty is to be “American and nothing else.” He should be opposing Germany due to Germany’s warfare against the American people.
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1916-01-05
Theodore Roosevelt agrees with Henry L. Stimson about universal military training and has mentioned using the Swiss as a model. Roosevelt cannot give Stimson his authority on Australia.
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1915-12-22
Theodore Roosevelt clarifies statements he made in his book, America and the World War. Belgium was unprepared when compared with Switzerland. Roosevelt gives G. Edward Buxton the names of people who may be interested in forming a league.
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1915-02-06
Theodore Roosevelt is interested in starting some sort of propaganda to promote a Swiss-style military system in the United States, and would like to discuss it with William Cary Sanger. He proposes having lunch with Sanger on Sunday, November 29.
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1914-11-23
Theodore Roosevelt is very interested in reading Albert Bushnell Hart’s book and thanks him for sending it. Roosevelt agrees with Hart and strongly advocates the introduction of the Swiss system into the United States.
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1914-11-04
Theodore Roosevelt thanks Albert Bushnell Hart for his letter. Roosevelt looks forward to reading Hart’s new book and finds it curious how much alike they think. He intends to recommend for the “United States military service on the lines of Switzerland,” which is basically what Hart is suggesting.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1914-10-05
Katharine B. Mills asks Theodore Roosevelt which measure he referred to in a recent article in the Outlook.
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1911-02-03
Francis Bowler Keene has admired President Roosevelt since their time at Harvard, and he encloses a “tribute” he originally wrote in 1901 and has since edited for submission to a publication seeking verse about the Roosevelt administration. However, Keene does not believe the work is good enough to be published. He is grateful for Roosevelt’s support of his diplomatic career, and alludes to his application for the post of Consul General of Switzerland. “Countless people” have praised his devoted and conscientious work as a consul in Europe. Keene hopes to see Roosevelt in Naples next year.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1909-02-02
This report compiled by Luther Hess Waring contains the laws of various European countries regarding futures, options, and other limitations that affect stock exchanges. The countries included in the document are Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland, with particular attention paid to the German Empire.
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1908-03-19
Regarding the central bank question, Ambassador White informs President Roosevelt that he has spoken to Luigi Luzzatti, an Italian financier. He believes that sooner or later, the United States will need to move to a central banking system, and that the men in the country are capable of rising to the challenge. Luzzatti provided several examples of banking systems in other countries and noted that Italy modeled their bank after Germany’s. Currently Luzzatti is working to establish an international conference on banking and would like the United States’s cooperation. White briefly congratulates Roosevelt on the progress of the Great White Fleet. White also updates Roosevelt on the progress of the embassy in France, which will finally be able to host the official reception for newly arrived ambassadors and officials. The record includes a handwritten letter and a typed transcription.
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1908-01-31
Ambassador White summarizes a series of informal meetings he had with several European bankers and politicians regarding establishing a central bank in the United States, the effect of the Panic of 1907 on European investors’ confidence in American markets, and avenues of international cooperation to prevent or mitigate future financial crises. White recounts general support for a central bank in the U.S. among the European financial community and expresses his own support for holding an international conference to examine transnational approaches towards financial crises.
Library of Congress Manuscript Division
1907-11-18