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Jacob H. Schiff keeps President Roosevelt informed about peace talks with Sergei Vitte and sends him a draft of a communication for Vitte with hopes for suggestions and support.
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1905-08-18
Rudolph Forster received a message from Ambassador Meyer indicating that Russia would remove all discriminating duties.
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1905-08-19
Sergei Witte recommends Russia make concessions to Japan, but Czar Nicholas II is unwilling. George von Lengerke Meyer will support Witte.
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1905-08-20
Peace talks continue between Sergei Witte and Baron Takahira. Baron Rosen has entered the talks at the recommendation of President Roosevelt. Japan is willing to make some concessions if Russia will as well. Armistice does not seem near.
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1905-08-20
John Callan O’Laughlin reports that the peace talks concerning the Russo-Japanese War continue between Sergei Vitte and Baron Komura.
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1905-08-10
Oscar S. Straus recounts to President Roosevelt a meeting during the Portsmouth Peace Conference between Russian plenipotentiary Sergei Witte and influential American Jews discussing the civil rights of Jews in Russia. Straus also notes the doubts some of the ministers have regarding prospects of peace between Russia and Japan, and encourages Roosevelt to make his sentiments known to them to encourage an agreement.
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1905-08-15
Assistant Secretary of State Adee sends President Roosevelt two interviews between Ambassador Robert Sanderson McCormick and Sergei Vitte.
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1905-08-07
Ambassador Meyer reports that the conference at Peterhof, presided over by Czar Nicholas II, went well. One speech indicated that the Romanov dynasty would be overthrown in revolution unless there were reforms. Reformers fear that peace may delay reforms and revolutionaries have been distributing literature to the peasants.
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1905-08-09
John Callan O’Laughlin recounts to Theodore Roosevelt a meeting between Sergei Vitte and Baron Komura. After confusion regarding credentials, both parties were satisfied with the meeting. Japan seeks an indemnity payment and the island of Sakhalin, which Russia will not give up.
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1905-08-09
John Callan O’Laughlin had a conversation with Sergei Vitte, and Vitte says that Russia will not pay an indemnity or $750,000,000. Russia will not ask for an armistice and if Japanese terms are reasonable, he will accept them in one day.
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1905-08-03
Second Assistant Secretary of State Adee forwards Ambassador McCormick’s letter about graf Witte’s misunderstanding of the Russian sugar duties to Benajamin F. Barnes for President Roosevelt’s perusal.
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1905-08-03
Simon Wolf would like to meet secretly with President Theodore Roosevelt to talk about Russian Jews.
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1905-07-25
Minister Witte is not willing to yield to anything “on this point.”
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1905-07-26
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1905-07-26
McCormick, Robert Sanderson, 1849-1919
Rudolph Forster relays a telegram from Ambassador McCormick who says that Vitte refuses to even discuss the payment of an indemnity with Japanese commissioners.
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1905-07-26
Ambassador McCormick discusses his conversations with Sergei Vitte, in which Vitte says that Russia will not pay an indemnity to Japan. However, McCormick is sure that President Roosevelt can help negotiate peace.
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1905-07-26
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis has learned that Count Sergei Witte will break off negotiations in ten days if Japan’s terms are unreasonable. Loomis goes on to tell what Witte is willing to negotiate.
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1905-07-28
Ambassador Meyer reflects on Russia’s government, industrial situation, anti-semitism, reforms, the appointment of Sergei Vitte as chairman of the Committee of Ministers, and the Russo-Japanese War.
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1905-07-21
Ambassador McCormick asks Assistant Secretary of State Adee to explain to Sergei Vitte why the United States decided to try the Russian sugar bounty case in the Supreme Court with the hope that Russia lowers the duty on American products once again.
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1905-07-22
Nicholas II praises Theodore Roosevelt for orchestrating the meeting between Russian and Japanese delegates to discuss possible terms of peace in the Russo-Japanese War. He informs Roosevelt that he has instructed Sergei Witte and Baron Roman Romanovich, the Russian ambassador to the U. S., on the extent of Russian concessions with the Japanese.
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1905-07-18