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51 “as funny a kingdom” TR, Letters, 7.385–86. For an account of TR’s visit, and a discussion of the publicity his Nobel Prize brought to newly independent Norway, see Wayne Cole, Norway and the United States, 1905–1955: Two Democracies in Peace and War (Ames, Iowa, 1989).
52 The pesky little millionaire Wall, Andrew Carnegie, 931; TR, Letters, 7.47–49. For TR’s initial efforts to make the appeal seem to come from Elihu Root, see TR, Letters, 7.42, 55. For the presidential involvement with arms control (at the time of the Second Hague Peace Conference) that TR refers to, see Frederick C. Leiner, “The Unknown Effort: Theodore Roosevelt’s Battleship Plan and International Arms Limitation Talks, 1906–1907,” Military Affairs, 48.3 (1984), and Morris, Theodore Rex, 485, 726. For an amusing, recently discovered letter in which TR dismisses Carnegie as “a perfect goose” in public affairs, see Theodore Roosevelt Association Journal, 30.3 (Summer 2009), 20–23.
53 Christiana was Wall, Andrew Carnegie, 934; Tuchman, The Proud Tower, 278.
54 Roosevelt’s oration Chicago Tribune, 6 May 1910; TR, Works, 18.410.
55 He gave conditional TR, Works, 18.414.
56 “international police power” Ibid., 18.415.
57 “There’s a trace of the savage” Wall, Andrew Carnegie, 935, 980. For the unexpectedly favorable reaction of an influential Norwegian commentator to TR’s speech, see American Review of Reviews, 42.3 (Aug. 1910).
58 Coughing and feverish EKR to TR.Jr., 8 May 1910 (TRJP); The New York Times, 9 May 1910. “I don’t like living in these palaces because you can’t ring your bell and complain of your room!” TR quoted in Abbott, Impressions of TR, 296.
59 He sent a telegram TR, Letters, 7.390; New York Tribune, 8 May 1910.
60 It had shone Margot Asquith, The Autobiography of Margot Asquith (Boston, 1963), 269.
61 The first thing TR, Letters, 7.390; Wellman, “The Homecoming of Roosevelt.”
62 the foremost nation Tuchman, The Proud Tower, 291; Edward Grey, Twenty-five Years: 1892–1916 (New York, 1925), 2.22; TR, Letters, 7.391. Between 1900 and 1910, Germany’s steel production increased 1,355 percent to Britain’s 154 percent. For other statistics, see Giles MacDonogh, The Last Kaiser: The Life of Wilhelm II (New York, 2000), 321.
63 Germany’s fields and forests For a vivid picture of pre-war Germany, see Owen Wister, The Pentecost of Calamity (New York, 1917), 18–23. See also Modris Ecksteins, Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age (Boston,1989), 77–82.
64 There was a frenzied scurrying O’Laughlin, From the Jungle Through Europe, 148; EKR diary, 10 May 1910 (TRP).
65 Wilhelm II in 1910 TR, Letters, 7.393; John C. G. Röhl, ed., Kaiser Wilhelm II: New Interpretations—The Corfu Papers (Cambridge, UK, 1982), 3–10, 14–19; Ragnhild Fiebig von Hase, “The Uses of ‘Friendship’: The ‘Personal Regime’ of Wilhelm II and Theodore Roosevelt, 1901–1909,” in Annika Mombauer and Wilhelm Deist, eds., The Kaiser: New Research on Wilhelm II’s Role in Imperial Germany (Cambridge, UK, 2004), 143–94.
66 Two years earlier MacDonogh, The Last Kaiser, chap. 12; John C. G. Röhl, The Kaiser and His Court: Wilhelm II and the Government of Germany (Cambridge, UK, 1996).
67 a fantasist of Münchausian dimensions Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 87–88. TR had sensed the Kaiser’s reincarnation fantasy as long before as 1902. “He writes to me pretending that he is a [direct] descendant of Frederick the Great! I know better and feel inclined to tell him so.” See Morris, Theodore Rex, 185–86, and Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Time (New York, 1964, 1972), 85.
68 Were it not O’Laughlin, From the Jungle Through Europe, 148; Manchester Guardian, 20, 21 May 1910; James W. Gerard, Face to Face with Kaiserism (New York, 1918), 20.
69 They stood face-to-face Abbott, Impressions of TR, 252–53. Accounts vary as to how long this conversation lasted. TR remembered it as three hours, the New York Tribune reported “more than an hour,” and Stanley Shaw, in his William of Germany (London, 1913), wrote that “the shades