A conference of
Algeciras to readjust the treaty provisions for the protection of
historian of America's foreign relations, "Although the United
subject matter of dispute, and might appropriately have held
the most influential of all, and it was largely owing to their
made and signed."* But there was something behind all this. A
Washington. The President of the United States and the French
There was a single.html">single danger-point in the impending negotiations.
the right man. He went out with a few words scratched on a card
solution. ** The proposal went to Paris, then to Morocco. The
menace to the peace.html">peace of the world was averted for the moment. Once
to peace.
* Willie Fletcher Johnson, "America's Foreign Relations", vol.
Roosevelt's most important single achievement as President of the
preliminary steps which he took in order to make its building
consistently and vigorously criticized.
It is not our purpose here to follow at length the history of
primarily concerned with the part which Roosevelt played in
was not the least interesting and significant. In after years
nothing of the sort. But it was like him to brush aside all
their own ground. It was as though he said to them, "You roundly
established the Republic of Panama. You declare that my acts were
splendid technical defense on the legal side; but I care little
that I did what you charge me with. I will prove to you that.
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