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20 Meeting later TR, Letters, 7.366.
21 At the same time Martin Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century: Volume 1: 1900–1933 (Toronto, 1997), 188. Germany’s former chancellor, Bernhard von Bülow, used the phrase “Nibelungen loyalty” to describe this compulsion. Michael Stürmer, The German Empire, 1870–1918 (New York, 2000), xxviii.
22 Roosevelt repeated TR, Letters, 7.377–78.
23 For the next thirty-six O’Laughlin, From the Jungle Through Europe, 105; Henry White to Henry Cabot Lodge, 23 Apr. 1910 (HCLP). “They [Europeans] look on him as the greatest man in the world, and think it strange that with his youth and energy he should be in private life.” (Wellman, “The Homecoming of Roosevelt.”) For TR’s half-puzzled, half-tickled reaction to his celebrity, see TR, Letters, 7.81.
24 He did not see Carl E. Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna: Politics and Culture (New York, 1981), xxvi–xxvii, 344; Barbara Tuchman, The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890–1914 (New York, 1966), 329. The rising suicide rate by Austro-Hungarian youth had become such a problem, just as TR arrived in Vienna, that Sigmund Freud’s Psychoanalytic Society called a meeting to discuss its subconscious causes. For an intellectual history describing the comet-haunted year of 1910 as “the year when all [Europe’s] scaffolds began to crack,” see Thomas Harrison, 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance (Berkeley, Calif., 1996).
25 All he knew On the same day that TR was entertained at Schönbrunn, a member of Serbia’s Black Hand terrorist group was arrested in Chiasso, Switzerland, on a charge of plotting to kill him. The New York Times, 17, 19 Mar. 1910.
26 Halfway through the banquet TR, Letters, 7.370.
27 Roosevelt was met TR, Letters, 7.372–73. Apponyi, surrounded by an official delegation, hailed TR as “one of the leading efficient forces for the moral improvement of the world.” (O’Laughlin, From the Jungle Through Europe, 111.) For the imperial-versus-royal paradox in the union of Austria and Hungary, see Andrew Wheatcroft, The Habsburgs: Embodying Empire (New York, 1995), 278–81.
28 He noticed TR, Letters, 7.372–73; KR diary (KRP); The Times, 19 Apr. 1910.
29 Multicultural himself Nicholas Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt: The Man As I Knew Him (New York, 1967), 56; Wellman, “The Homecoming of Roosevelt”; TR, Letters, 7.374.
30 an extempore address TR, Letters, 7.374. TR, speaking from memory, wrongly attached the name of King Béla III, rather than Andrew II, to the Golden Bull. A sarcastic British correspondent, filing from Vienna, was thus able to report on the “fervor and inaccuracy” of his speech, as well as Apponyi’s “stage management” of the occasion. The Times, 20 Apr. 1910.
31 His carriage had to force The New York Times, 19 Apr. 1910; O’Laughlin, From the Jungle Through Europe, 114–15.
32 the most famous man in the world Wellman, “The Homecoming of Roosevelt.” As late as the early years of World War I, a friend of TR’s found that he could travel “all over Europe” with no other credential than a letter from the Colonel. Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 400.
33 “When he appears” The Times, 16 Apr. 1910.
34 “Like the elder” TR to Robert Bacon, TR, Letters, 7.65. For TR’s previous relationship with Bacon, his Harvard classmate and former secretary of state, see James Brown Scott, Robert Bacon: Life and Letters (New York, 1923), passim, and Morris, Theodore Rex, 167–68, 456–57.
35 Both ambassadors Scott, Bacon, 136–43. The last-named Frenchmen were favorites of TR’s. He had been corresponding with them for years, and admired their mix of mind and action. Estournelles de Constant, author of La conciliation internationale, had just become a fellow winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Coubertin, author of many books on education, was the founder of the modern Olympic Games.
36 “Quand on parle” TR quoted in Journal des