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For the rediscovery of the cable, see Tyler Dennett, “President Roosevelt’s Secret Pact with Japan,” Current History, Oct. 1924. For a sample modern interpretation by the conspiracy school, see Walter LaFeber, “Betrayal in Tokyo,” Constitution, fall 1994.
80 As the Prime Minister Taft-Katsura Memorandum.
81 Allowing Koreans Ibid. For Japan’s previous efforts, diplomatic and military, to colonize Korea, see Dennett, Roosevelt, 96–111. See also M. Hane, “Theodore Roosevelt and Korea: The U.S. Response to the Japanese Policy to Make Korea Its Protectorate,” Journal of American History 82.4 (1996).
82 Regarding the Philippines Taft-Katsura Memorandum.
83 Taft said that Ibid. For reactions to Root’s appointment, see Jessup, Elihu Root, vol. 1, 47–51.
84 “If I have” Taft-Katsura Memorandum.
85 YOUR CONVERSATION TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1293; Dennett, Roosevelt, 110–11.
86 ALICE, UNAWARE Alice Roosevelt diary, 27 July and passim 1905 (ARL).
87 At a dinner entertainment Griscom, Diplomatically Speaking, 259.
88 Since her father Teague, Mrs. L., 4–5; Morris, Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, 122.
89 Her last impression Longworth, Crowded Hours, 85.
90 a sketch of his daughter Facsimile from family collection, privately held. TR’s superscript reads “Not a posterity letter.”
91 At the time Dennett, Roosevelt, 198–200.
92 Washington was, of TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1226.
93 Only one met Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 66. The choice of Portsmouth was announced officially on 12 July 1904.
94 The pretty, little Ibid., 67–70. The building (no. 86) still stands.
95 Their respective Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 115–16.
96 AT SIX AND A half Ibid., 74–76; Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 284; E. J. Dillon, “Sergius Witte,” Review of Reviews, Sept. 1905.
97 Henry Adams had Adams, Letters, vol. 5, 284; John Hay diary, 16 Feb. 1905 (JH); Charles Hardinge to Lord Lansdowne, 4 Jan. 1905, in British Documents on Foreign Affairs, vol. 1A, 3, 1. The best contemporary portrait of Witte is in Smalley, Anglo-American Memories, chap. 30.
98 Roosevelt had hoped Dennett, Roosevelt, 42–43; TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1276. Ito had actually proposed a Russo-Japanese alliance in 1902, when Witte was the Tsar’s finance minister.
99 Komura was, like Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 72; Smalley, Anglo-American Memories, 398. The latter memorably describes Komura as having “an intelligent face, but of parchment written all over with hieroglyphics.”
100 Not only that Griscom, Diplomatically Speaking, 225–26.
101 The four plenipotentiaries For a complete list of delegates to the Portsmouth Conference, see Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 72–73, 76–77.
102 That solemn engagement Philip G. Thompson notes (Portsmouth Conference) (HKB). The date of this visit was 27 July. The New York Times, 28 July 1905.
103 a space both deep and high The following description is based on David H. Wallace, Historic Furnishings Report: Sagamore Hill National Historic Site (Harpers Ferry, W. Va., 1989), vol. 1, 51–52, 246–52 (photographs taken in July 1905). See also Hermann Hagedorn, The Roosevelt Family of Sagamore Hill (New York, 1954), 232–35. Komura was the first VIP received by TR in the North Room.
104 heavy Philippine hardwoods The Roosevelts took pride in the fact that “every bit of wood or stone [in the North Room] came from the United States or her possessions.” Roosevelt, All in the Family, 7–9.
105 “Framed” thus in Japan’s terms are reproduced in Dennett, Roosevelt, 231–32. See also Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 95–96.
106 Arrogant though these Trani, Treaty of Portsmouth, 96.
107 As for the indemnity TR, Letters, vol. 4, 1293.
108 hard numbers of yen A member of the Japanese delegation hinted that the indemnity request might run as high as three million yen. J. J. Korostovetz, Pre-War Diplomacy: The Russo-Japanese Problem: Diary of J. J. Korostovetz (London, 1920), 28 (hereafter