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116. Municipal Archives, Strong mss. Most newspapers, and many eminent lawyers, concurred with this verdict, while still urging Parker to resign. See, e.g., N.Y.T., July 13, 1897.
117. AND.207; Mor.660–1.
118. Che.14–15; Pri.150–1; see Mor. 711 for TR’s disgusted reaction.
119. Ste.275.
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Important sources not in Bibliography: 1. Grenville, John A. S., “American Preparations for War with Spain,” in Journal of American Studies (GB) 1968.2(1). 2. Karsten, Peter, “The Nature of ‘Influence’: Roosevelt, Mahan, and the Concept of Sea Power,” in American Quarterly, 1971.23(4). A convincing reassessment of the early TR/Mahan relationship; required reading for all students of TR’s political methods. (See also Turk, Richard W., The Ambiguous Relationship: Theodore Roosevelt and Alfred Thayer Mahan (Greenwood Press, 1987). 3. Nicholson, Philip Y., “George Dewey and the Expansionists of 1898,” in Vermont History, 1974.42(3). 4. Paullin, Charles Oscar, Paullin’s History of Naval Administration 1775–1911 (U.S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, 1968). 5. Spector, Ronald, Admiral of the New Empire [Dewey] (Louisiana State U., 1974). 6. Sprout, Harold and Margaret, The Rise of American Naval Power, 1776–1918 (Princeton, 1966). In this revised version of their classic history, the authors anticipate Karsten op. cit. by lowering their assessment of Mahan’s influence vis à vis TR’s.
1. Mor.599; TR.Auto.12; But.291; Igl.121–2.
2. New York Times, May 2, 1897. (This desk is now preserved at TRB.)
3. Harper’s Weekly, May 7, 1897.
4. LON. Apr. 9, 1897; Mor.588; But. 40.
5. “Rightly or wrongly Uncle John [Sherman, Secretary of State] and Long are considered and treated as senile.”—Elizabeth Cameron to Henry Adams, Mar. 4, 1898 (ADA).
6. Mor. 604.
7. “I make it a point not to trouble myself overmuch to acquire a thorough knowledge of the details pertaining to any branch of the service … the range is so enormous I could make little progress, and that is a great expense of health and time, in mastering it.” Long, Journal, Feb. 2, 1897.
8. Pau.428; Intro to Lon; LON. passim; pors.
9. Pau.369, 429; Mor.608.
10. Chicago Times-Herald, Apr. 7, 1897; Washington Post, Apr. 8.
11. London Times, Apr. 8.
12. Clip dated “May 1897” in TR.Scr.; Mor. 602–3.
13. Cullom int. N.Y. World news clip, n.d. [1897], in Pratt Scrapbook (TRB).
14. Mor.626; Nicholson 217.
15. See Pra. for a negative but invaluable account of the movement.
16. Bea.22–3; Gar.182; Mor.608, 621; Sam.3.161–3; Millis, Walter, Arms and Men (N.Y., 1956), 169; Jos., Chapter 2; Nicholson, 217; Mor.621; Her.197.
17. Spr.225; Nicholson, passim.
18. TR.Works.XIII. 182–99.
19. Mor.601.n. Japan had despatched the cruiser Naniwa Kan to Hawaii in mid-April, fearful that an annexation move by the U.S. would threaten the rights of some 25,000 Japanese citizens in the islands. See also Pra.217–220, May.127.
20. TR.Wks.XIII.185–6.
21. Pittsburgh Dispatch, Sep. 12, 1897; Sun, May 22.
22. TR.Wks.XIII. 199.
23. Bis. 1.77; TR.Scr. passim.
24. W. Post, n.d., TRB; Sun, June 3, 1897; Herald, ib.; Daily Picayune, June 7; Harper’s W., June 19.
25. L.E.Q. to H. L. Stoddard, Feb. 15, 1919, TRB.
26. Millis, Arms, 169–70; Spr.226; Lee. 149.
27. Spr.202 ff.; Bur.44. See also Millis, Arms, 166–7; Pra.212 ff.
28. This para. based largely on Grenville.
29. Pau.416; Grenville. (Herbert was not against naval expansion per se; his scruples were in the area of foreign policy. See Spr.218–20.)
30. Mor.617–8.
31. Mor.607. (Mahan had recently retired from NWC, but continued to influence it.)
32. Bea.57, Mor.622; Pra.217–9; Morg.295; Mor. 627–8.
33. For details of this international race, see Bur.28 ff., Bea.14 ff.
34. Mor.623.
35. Mor.622–3.
36. The following account of the early relationship between TR and Mahan is based largely on Karsten, passim.
37. Millis, Arms, 155–6 (the adjective “workmanlike” is his).
38. Luce to TR, Feb. 13, 1888, qu. Karsten, 588; see also ib., 225–6.
39. See, e.g., TR.Wks.XII.264–72; ib., 372–79; XIV.309.
40. Karsten, 591.
41.