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41. Three cablegrams, Taft to Roosevelt, September 24, 1906, Taft-
    Bacon Report, pp. 472-73.


42. Taft to Roosevelt, September 25, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, pp.
    474-75.


43. Roosevelt to Taft, September 22, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 472.


44. Roosevelt to Taft, September 20, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 469.
    The insurgents' funds, estimated at $1 million, were raised by the
    Liberals as graft while in office, by voluntary subscription, and by
    blackmail and extortion from Spanish and Cuban planters. One con­
    tribution of a few hundred dollars was traced to the American colony
    on the Isle of Pines. Memo by Frank S. Cairns on source of funds, Sep­
    tember 22, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.


45. Roosevelt to C. W. Eliot, September 22, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.


46. Joseph B. Foraker to Roosevelt, September 27, 1906, and Roose­
    velt to Henry Cabot Lodge, September 27, 1906, Roosevelt Papers.
    In a Chicago speech opening the Republican Congressional campaign
    in the Midwest, Beveridge said that intervention would bring annexa­
    tion; it was destiny and a welcome return to the "traditional American
    doctrine" that "wherever the flag is raised it never shall be lowered."
    Washington Post, September 23, 1906.


47. Times (London), September 15, 1906. Lodge agreed with the
    Times that neither party was likely to get much of an issue out of the
    Cuban civil war. Lodge to Roosevelt, September 29, 1906, Roosevelt
    Papers.


48. Lord Acton, British minister to Spain, to Sir Edward Grey, Sep­
    tember 19 and 22, 1906, FO 371-56, PRO.


49. Lord Acton to Grey, September 24, 1906, FO 371-56, PRO.
    American annexation of Cuba, according to diplomats Acton talked with,
    "would mean the admission of an alien race into the Commonwealth
    and the presence of Spaniards in Congress with an indirect share in
    the Government of the United States, without bringing with it material
    advantages in the shape of an accretion of revenue to the Federal
    Treasury," all of which made annexation distasteful to the Americans
    and therefore unlikely.


50. Chapman, A History of the Cuban Republic, p. 210.


51. Roosevelt to Taft, September 28, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 481.


52. Three cables, Roosevelt to Taft, September 25, 1906, Taft-Bacon
    Report, pp. 473-75.


53. Taft to Roosevelt, September 26, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, pp.
    475-77. For the Liberal position on September 26, see Zayas' letter to
    the peace commissioners, Exhibit 14, Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 514-16.


54. Roosevelt to Taft, September 26, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, pp.
    477-78.


55. Roosevelt to Taft, September 26, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 478.


56. Taft to Roosevelt, September 26 and 27, 1906, Taft-Bacon Re­
    port, pp. 478-80.
    The British assessment was the same. G. W. E. Griffith to Grey,
    September 27, 1906, FO 371-56, PRO.