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53 “He is most” O’Laughlin to his wife, 6 Sept. 1914 (OL).
54 “there should be” Ibid. See 47.
55 hurricane of steel See 301.
56 The war had wrought The New York Times, 26 Sept. 1914; EKR diary, 27 Sept. 1914, misdated 14 Sept. (TRC). As things transpired, a security scare diverted the ship to Glasgow.
57 Edith said goodbye EKR to ERD, 5 Oct. 1914 (ERDP); TR to KR, 17 Jan. 1915 (TRC).
58 I have something special Trevelyan to TR, 1 Sept. 1914 (TRP).
59 Your mode of thought For recent analyses of TR’s foreign policy toward Britain and Europe, see William N. Tilchin, Theodore Roosevelt and the British Empire: A Study in Presidential Statecraft (New York, 1997), and Serge Ricard, Théodore Roosevelt: principes et pratique d’une politique étrangère (Aix-en-Provence, 1991). Howard K. Beale’s massive Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power (Baltimore, 1956) remains the most comprehensive overall survey, and Frederick W. Marks’s elegant Velvet on Iron (op. cit.) the most concise. An excellent specialized study is Henry J. Hendrix, Theodore Roosevelt’s Naval Diplomacy: The U.S. Navy and the Birth of the American Century (Annapolis, Md., 2009). See also Raymond A. Esthus, Theodore Roosevelt and Japan (Seattle, 1966), and A. Gregory Moore, “Dilemma of Stereotypes: Theodore Roosevelt and China, 1901–1909,” (Ph.D. diss., Kent State University, 1978).
60 Other representatives TR, Letters, 8.819–20; Hengelmüller to TR, 24 Sept. 1914, reprinted at TR’s request in The New York Times, 8 Nov. 1914.
61 Sir Edward Grey asked In his letter, dated 10 Sept. 1914, the foreign minister included a fair amount of anti-German propaganda of his own. See Grey, Twenty-five Years, 2.143–44. The author of Peter Pan lunched with the Roosevelts on 3 Oct. He did not like TR, whom he found oppressively talkative, and EKR did not like him. “A mousy, moody little man.” EKR to ERD, 5 Oct. 1914 (ERDP).
62 Rudyard Kipling reported Kipling to TR, 15 Sept. 1914 (TRP).
63 “It is no good” Cecil Spring Rice to TR, 10 Sept. 1914 (CSR). The ambassador’s conspiracists, “toiling in a solid phalanx to compass our destruction,” also included Adolph Ochs and “the arch-Jew,” Jacob Schiff of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. (Spring Rice to Valentine Chirol, 13 Nov. 1914 [CSR].) For a brief account of Straus’s negotiations, which were concerned not with commerce but with his plan to launch a new mediatory effort by the Wilson administration, see Straus, Under Four Administrations, 378–85, and Grey, Twenty-five Years, 2.119–21. The plan was rejected by both Germany and Great Britain.
64 “An ex-President” TR to Rudyard Kipling, 3 Oct. 1914 (TRC).
65 Roosevelt did not blame See also TR, Letters, 7.794.
66 Even in the Far East Kiaochow surrendered on 7 Nov. 1914. For a modern endorsement of the view that all the belligerents in World War I were right as well as wrong, see Joachim Remak in Lee, Outbreak of the First World War, 147–49.
67 “It seems to me” TR in The Outlook, 23 Sept. 1914.
68 He had read Friedrich von Bernhardi, Germany and the Next War (U.S. edition, New York, 1914).
69 “somewhat as my own” TR in The Outlook, 23 Sept. 1914.
70 “living softly” Ibid.
71 butchered some hundreds of thousands Not to be confused with the Turkish-Armenian massacre of 1915.
72 The last two “For this error of judgment … I am afraid Roosevelt never forgave me.” (Abbott, Impressions of TR, 250–51.) TR restored the deleted language when he republished the essay in Jan. 1915.
73 “Surely the time” TR in The Outlook, 23 Sept. 1914. TR’s essay is reprinted in TR, Works, 20.14–35.
Historiographical Note: TR herewith revived his earlier call for “a League of Peace” at Christiania, Norway, in May 1910. Just eight days after the beginning of the war, he had tried the idea out privately on Hugo Münsterberg, envisaging “the kind of caprice among the great powers which will minimize the armaments of all and will solemnly bind all the rest