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78 “I am having” TR to QR, 29 Sept. 1913 (TRC).
79 On 27 September The New York Times, 28 Sept. 1913. TR also forced the nomination of Samuel Seabury, a Democrat, as associate justice running on the Progressive ticket.
80 Finally he allowed The New York Times, 4 Oct. 1913. The official text of TR’s speech, entitled “The United States and the South American Republics,” is in TR, Works, 18.391–405. TR was embarrassed when some paragraphs he decided not to read, being overly critical of Woodrow Wilson’s foreign policy, were accidentally released to newspapers.
81 he sold The Outlook EKR to ERD, 4 July 1913 (ERDP). TR’s income from writing and speaking in 1913, based on his wife’s figures and royalty statements in SCR, was approximately $46,000, or $764,000 in contemporary (2010) dollars. This total does not include whatever he may have earned from his inheritance and investments. His and EKR’s frequent protestations of poverty in later life were those of old-money aristocrats, as reflexive as middle-class complaints about the weather. Before returning home from South America, EKR informed ERD that in order to get through the winter alone at Sagamore Hill, she would require the in-house services of a cook, a kitchen maid, a waitress, a chambermaid, and a parlormaid (20 Oct. 1913 [ERDP]).
82 Quentin and Archie Having qualified for Harvard, ABR congratulated himself on at last being able to associate with men “of my own class.” Apparently Andover had not come up to his social standards. ABR note, n.d., enclosed in EKR to KR, 9 Mar. 1913 (KRP).
83 Alice was more EKR to KR, 24, 27 May 1913 (KRP); EKR to ERD, 15 July 1913 (ERDP). According to ARL in later life, TR and EKR showed more concern for the social consequences of a loud public divorce than for her or Nick’s personal distress. “Although they didn’t quite lock me up, they exercised considerable pressure … told me to think it over very carefully indeed.… Not done, they said. Emphatically.” Teague, Mrs. L, 158. See also Cordery, Alice, 238.
84 “Naturally,” he wrote TR, An Autobiography, 243 (foreword, dated 1 Oct. 1913).
INTERLUDE: GERMANY, OCTOBER—DECEMBER, 1913
1 Inevitably, they dwarfed Illustration in The Outlook, 18 Oct. 1913. There is a full account of the dedication in The Times, 20 Oct. 1913.
2 The Battle of Leipzig Also known in various languages as the Battle of Nations, because of the multiplicity of armies that took part. Germans usually refer to the monument as der Volkerschlachtdenkmal.
3 in tomorrow’s European papers See, e.g., page 8 of The Times, 20 Oct. 1913.
4 His particular phobia Bismarck’s constant, typically Prussian refrain had been, “The Reich is in danger.” (Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 66.) For a discussion of the anthropological significance of the Battle of Nations monument, see Rudy Koshar, From Monuments to Traces: Artifacts of German Memory, 1890–1990 (Berkeley, Calif., 2000) 43–47.
5 “Ich gehe mi Euch” Lawrence Sondhaus, Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf (Boston, 2000), 133. In an alternate translation of this remark, the Kaiser sounds more peremptory: “you would be at Belgrade” becomes “you must be in Belgrade.” (H. W. Koch, ed., The Origins of the First World War: Great Power Rivalry and German War Aims [London, 1972], 136.) Conrad himself was the source of the quotation.
6 Franz Ferdinand jealously Sondhaus, Conrad, 133.
7 French comments had The New York Times, 19 Nov. 1913; Koshar, From Monuments to Traces, 47.
8 An eruptive bigness Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 69; Tuchman, The Proud Tower, 344; Schorske, Fin-de-Siècle Vienna, 345. Tuchman misdates the premiere of Strauss’s Festliches Präludium, Op. 61, which marked the opening of the Vienna Konzerthaus on 19 Oct. 1913.
9 “It is only by” Tuchman, The Proud Tower, 344.
10 In last year’s Ecksteins, Rites of Spring, 73.
11 Chancellor ever more