AND THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WA A critical study of American policy in Easter: COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. First Edition HIS book is a continuation of a study begun some THIS 66 years ago the first results of which were published in 'Americans in Eastern Asia" (N. Y., 1922). The former book comprised an investigation of the development of American policy in China, Japan, and Korea down to 1900. This volume, with some limitations, carries the study down through the Roosevelt administration and concludes with the change in American policy which was revealed in the Knox neutralization plan for the Manchurian railways in 1909. This book, however, has a narrowed scope, for it aims to present in detail only the facts with reference to Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War and his policies toward Japan, Korea, and China. "Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War" is based upon the private papers of Colonel Roosevelt to which the writer has had the freest access. Thanks beyond measure, therefore, are due to the Roosevelt family for permission to search these hitherto unused sources. The papers in question are deposited in the Library of Congress, and it is a pleasure to acknowledge the good offices and generous attention of Dr. Charles Moore and Mr. John C. Fitzpatrick of the Manuscripts Division. The substance of these chapters was given as lectures before the history students of the graduate school of Johns Hopkins University in the spring of 1924. The writer is under a debt of lasting obligation to Professors John H. Latané and W. W. Willoughby for much sympathetic and helpful interest in the preparation of this material and its presentation. Some of the chapters formed the basis of a lecture given before the Institute of Politics at Williamstown in August, 1924, and were subsequently elaborated in an article in Current History (October, 1924). Other portions of the material appeared in World's Work (February, 1925). Thanks are due to Hermann Hagedorn for reading the manuscript and for much friendly interest, and to Arthur W. Page for helpful suggestions as to the rearrangement of some parts of the text. In undertaking this study the writer was so fortunate as to be able to lay heavy tribute upon his friends who are specialists in various phases of the European history which is so closely related to the events in the Far East of 190405. Professor Bernadotte E. Schmitt suggested important continental sources of information which the writer might otherwise have overlooked. Professor A. L. P. Dennis has been of constant assistance and, after having read critically some portions of the manuscript, added to his generous service by securing from the British Foreign Office certain information which is acknowledged on page 214. Finally, the writer will always treasure the memory that his dear friend, the late Baron Serge A. Korff, in the last weeks of his crowded life, with an abundant generosity unwarranted by his strength, insisted upon reading the manuscript critically and made important corrections and suggestions. And yet, notwithstanding the help which has been acknowledged as well as the assistance of other unnamed |