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In this translated editorial from the Russian newspaper, Novoe Vremya, America is heavily criticized for their past and present exploitation of fisheries in Eastern Siberia.
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1905-07-08
Ambassador Griscom forwards a message from the Japanese government stating Japan will negotiate for peace if Russia is willing.
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1905-07-07
This pamphlet presents financial information regarding American railways in 1903.
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1905
Augustus Saint-Gaudens discusses the work he completed for a medal, upcoming work for coins, and the reasons he cannot work on a statue of William McKinley.
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1905-07-06
Ambassador Sternburg writes President Roosevelt about the terms of the Madrid conference regulating the rights of foreigners in Morocco.
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1905-06-01
French Ambassador Jusserand informs Foreign Minister Delcassé, also of France, of a conversation between President Theodore Roosevelt and Hermann Speck von Sternburg, Germany’s ambassador to the United States. On behalf of Emperor Wilhelm II, Sternburg approached Roosevelt about a conference on Morocco. Roosevelt shared the conversation in confidence and asked for Jusserand’s input prior to responding. Jusserand assured Roosevelt that France would decline such a proposal and that all of the major powers would do the same. Roosevelt responded that given France’s views on the matter, the United States would also abstain if such a meeting was formally proposed.
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1905-06-03
Emperor William II fears that when news of the annihilation of the Russian fleet in the Korean Straits reaches Saint Petersburg, there will be “grave disorder” and possibly revolution and attempts on the life of Emperor Nicholas II. William II has written to advise Emperor Nicholas II to open peace negotiations with Japan and to get a message to President Roosevelt for assistance.
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1905-06-04
The article dispels the rumors that the United States might favor Japan in the Russo-Japanese War. It also reinforces the fact that United States influence in the Philippines is there to stay.
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1905-04-29
Article from the “Journal de St. Petersbourg” describing England in 1903 as the most powerful Navy in the world and quoting President Roosevelt as wanting the U.S Navy to be the most powerful by the Inauguration of the Panama Canal.
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1905-04-24
Minister to China Conger reports to Secretary of State Hay that China strongly wishes the United States to take an active role in brokering peace between Japan and Russia. In particular, Conger believes it would be beneficial for the United States to guarantee transfer of the railway in Manchuria to China, rather than Japan.
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1905-03-31
George Kennan objects to the language in a California resolution that denies naturalization to Japanese immigrants based on their “disposition and characteristics,” which the resolution says make them “a wholly undesirable and unsatisfactory” addition to the country. It is an insult to Japan that this language excludes their people, while the United States continues to admit “the lowest, most ignorant, most degraded classes from southeastern Europe” and allows them to become citizens. Kennan intends to write about this subject in The Outlook.
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1905-04-01
Baron van Tuyll called to relay the dissatisfaction of the Netherlands with the Venezuelan government, and to notify the United States government that the Netherlands would need to take serious measures.
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1905-03-24
Cecil Spring Rice updates Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt on the declining political and social situation in Russia. Although revolution seems to be in the air, Czar Nicholas seems impervious to demands for reform and determined to maintain the autocracy. Crowds are being shot down in the streets, including women and children; trains are being robbed of munitions; and a complete breakdown of order appears imminent. Spring Rice also describes Great Britain’s stance toward Russia, Japan, and America, particularly King Edward VII’s admiration for President Roosevelt.
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1905-03-13
Alexander Blair Thaw hopes that the ode he wrote for Roosevelt’s inauguration expresses the hope and faith the American people have in Roosevelt.
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1905-02-17
Secretary of State Hay assures Minister Le´ger that the United States has no intention of annexing Haiti or Santo Domingo.
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1905-02-09
Baron Takahira sends to Assistant Secretary of State Adee, for the information of the United States government, a copy of a telegram from a Japanese diplomat concerning the Russian warships docked in Shanghai.
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1904-08-26
Secretary of State Hay discusses the Arabia decision and the rules about contraband items. He asks Ambassador McCormick to tell the Russian government that the flour carried by the Arabia was consigned in the ordinary course of commerce.
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1904-08-11
W. H. Ellis reports that shortly after his arrival in Addis Ababa he delivered the treaty and President Roosevelt’s letter to Emperor Menelik II. The treaty was well received; Ellis reports that Menelik II informed him that he would soon have a receipt for the same.
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1904-08-06
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis has received William Loeb’s letter concerning President Roosevelt’s approval and appointment of John T. Abbott as a financial agent between the United States and the Dominican Republic.
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1904-07-28
Secretary of Commerce and Labor Metcalf has received correspondence detailing the plan of the British government to send a gunboat to patrol the waters surrounding the Commander Islands in an attempt to reduce fur seal poaching in that area. Metcalf recommends that the United States government also send a gunboat “for the purpose of seizing and arresting any American vessels that may be found sealing in such waters.”
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1904-07-16