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57 The handling of Ibid.
58 He went on The New York Times, 25 June 1914.
59 In doing so The casualties in the Panamanian Revolution, both victims of Colombian artillery fire, were one donkey and a Chinese immigrant. Morris, Theodore Rex, 290.
60 “We have gone” The New York Times, 12 May 1914.
61 a run for the U.S. Senate Pinchot failed to unseat Boies Penrose.
62 “You may expect” The New York Times, 28 June 1914; Wood, Roosevelt As We Knew Him, 396. For the similar warning of a Harvard doctor who examined TR on the eve of his graduation, see Morris, The Rise of TR, 108–9.
63 “Oh! I guess” The New York Times, 29 June 1914.
64 “Es ist nichts” Stürmer, The German Empire, 100.
65 His assassination Strachan, The First World War, 10.
66 Apparently, Franz Ferdinand The archduke was warned to stay away by Bosnian authorities, but he did not take their alarmism seriously.
67 After a journey EKR diary, 30 June 1914 (TRC); Titusville (Pa.) Herald and The New York Times, 1 July 1914; Greenville (Pa.) Evening Record, 1 July 1914.
68 “It is such” The New York Times, 1 July 1914.
69 “thoroughly exhausted” Lewis, TR, 415–16. The Titusville (Pa.) Herald, 1 July 1914, also noted TR’s husky voice and lack of gestural force.
70 “What on earth” Lewis, TR, 453.
71 Roosevelt was back The New York Times, 2 July 1914.
72 “It was not” EKR to Anna Roosevelt Cowles, 15 Oct. 1913 (ARC); TR, Letters, 7.772.
73 He would still Lawrence Abbott to his father, 13 May 1914 (ABB). John McGrath, 23, had replaced Frank Harper as TR’s secretary.
74 “If I had been” TR, Letters, 7.768.
75 In Berlin, Wilhelm Count Szögyéni to Count Berchtold, 5 July 1914, in GHDI: German History in Documents and Images (http://germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org/).
76 “a serious complication” Ibid.
77 “The future lies” Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 313.
78 While Washington waited Oakland Tribune, Ludington (Mich.) Daily News, Anaconda (Mont.) Standard, Nevada State Journal, Titusville (Pa.) Herald, Orange County (N.Y.) Times, and Brownwood (Tex.) Daily Bulletin, 29–30 June 1914.
CHAPTER 18: THE GREAT ACCIDENT
1 Epigraph Robinson, Collected Poems, 12.
2 When the Imperator The New York Times, 16, 17 July 1914.
3 little Richard This ill-fated boy was the eighth Richard to be born in eight generations of the Derby family in the United States. TR, Letters, 8.1015.
4 So would Ted EKR diary, 16–31 July 1914 (TRC).
5 That young lady Belle Willard Roosevelt had just turned 22.
6 the slender graduate John C. O’Laughlin to wife, 15 Sept. 1914 (OL).
7 A delegation The New York Times, 19 July 1914.
8 In New York State Ibid., 23 July 1914.
9 On the same Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 318.
10 The terms of this ultimatum On 8 July, the German ambassador in Vienna delivered a virtual command from the Kaiser, stating “most emphatically that Berlin expected the [Dual] Monarchy to act against Serbia, and that Germany would not understand it if … the present opportunity were allowed to go by … without a blow struck.” Lee, Outbreak of the First World War, 62.
11 In mid-Atlantic The New York Times, 1 Aug. 1914. The Kaiser himself had suggested, as early as 20 July, that German liners in foreign waters be put on war alert. Lee, Outbreak of the First World War, 69.
12 he allowed Theodore Roosevelt See Morris, Theodore Rex, 388–91.
13 “Then I must” Lee, Outbreak of the First World War, 87.
14 At 11:10 A.M. Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 320; Lee, Outbreak of the First World War, 143; Strachan, The First World War, 10; Mark Mitchell and Allan Evans, citing the Austrian imperial archives in Moriz Rosenthal in Word and Music (Bloomington, Ind., 2006), 173.
15 Wilhelm II, however Gilbert, A History of the Twentieth Century, 322; Lee, Outbreak of the First World War, 58.
16 To Edith Wharton Wharton, A Backward Glance, 338, specifically