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Morgan rode out Roosevelt's wrath and stayed in Cuba. His reports
are a valuable "control" on the Provisional Government's assessment of
Cuban political conditions.

39. Taft to Magoon, October 31, 1906, File 005, CC/PGoC, RG 199.


40. "Report of Conference between the Provisional Government and
    Commission of the Revolutionary or Liberal Party, November 9, 1906,"
    File 008, CC/PGoC, RG 199.


41. Charles Hernandez to McCoy, December 8, 1906, McCoy Papers;
    G. W. E. Griffith, British Minister to Cuba, to Sir Edward Grey, January
    11, 1907, FO 371-242, PRO; Martinez Ortiz, Cuba: los primeros anos
    de independencia, II, p. 401.


42. Magoon to Taft, February 25, 1907 and reply, File 076-076-2,
    CC/PGoC, RG 199.


43. MID to Chief of Staff (C/S), ACP, March 30, 1907; April 23,
    1907; April 26, 1907, File 100-100/2-12, CC/PGoC. The British
    minister largely concurred with the MID. Griffith to Grey, February 26,
    1907, FO 371-242, PRO.


44. In Cuba, press reaction to the disclosures was varied. The Havana
    Daily Telegraph reported (December 20, 1906) that Cuban reaction
    ranged from outrage to despondency; it took the position that the re­
    ports proved the Cubans unfit for self-government and urged a pro­
    tectorate. La Lucha (October 23, 1906) said that the diplomatic
    revelations proved "Messrs. Roosevelt, Taft, Bacon and Magoon are
    not novices. They know politics as an art and as a science."


45. Morgan to Root, November 7, 1906, Case 1943/2-7, Num. File,
    1906-1910, Vol. CCV, RG 59; Independent (November 8, 1906), pp.
    1078-79.


46. Morgan to Root, November 20, 1906, Case 1943/19-21, Num.
    File, 1906-1910, Vol. CCV, RG 59.


47. Magoon to McCoy, December 10, 1906, McCoy Papers.
    Individual conservatives, Magoon wrote, gave welcome advice freely
    but distained taking leadership in a political party.


48. Magoon to Taft, December 25, 1906, File 017, CC/PGoC, RG


49. "My own idea is to occupy it three months each year (during the
    winter months)." Magoon to Taft, December 18, 1906, Crowder Papers.


50. Magoon to Taft, March 4, 1907, File 081, CC/PGoC, RG 199.


51. During the winter of 1907 Roosevelt received long, thoughtful
    memos on Cuban affairs from Gustavus Bock of the American Tobacco
    Company, a forty-three year resident of Havana, and from William E.
    Curtis, author, journalist, and former official of the Pan American Union.
    By implication both Bock and Curtis favored continued occupation and
    political supervision of Cuban affairs. Roosevelt sent the memos to Taft.
    Taft-Roosevelt Correspondence, 1907, Taft Papers. See also Magoon,
    Report, 1906-1907, pp. 24-25.


52. James Bryce, British ambassador to the United States, to Grey,
    April 18, 1907, FO 371-242, PRO. Colonel Bullard would have agreed
    with Bryce. Bullard to Magoon, reports of February 6 to April 8, 1907,
    File 066-66-3, CC/PGoC, RG 199.