94.Reel 1977, S. Wolf to Schiff, 13 July 1914.
95.Reel 685, Schiff to P. Warburg, 23 Dec. 1895; Kuhn, Loeb, p. 17; New York Eve-
ning Post, 13 Oct. 1926; Adler, Schiff, vol. 1, chap. 6.
96.Gary D. Best, “Jacob Schiff’s Early Interest in Japan,” American Jewish History
69 (Mar. 1980): 355–59.
97.Daniel Gutwein, “Jacob H. Schiff and the Financing of the Russo-Japanese
War” (Hebrew),” Zion 54 (1989): 321–50; Gary D. Best, “Financing a Foreign
War,” American Jewish Historical Quarterly 61 (June 1972): 313–24; A. J. Sher-
man, “German Jewish Bankers in World Politics,” Leo Baeck Institute, Year
Book28 (1983): 69–71; reel 681, memo by Paul Warburg; reel 689, Schiff to E.
Cassel, 15 May 1904; New York Evening Post, 13 Oct. 1926; Adler, Schiff,
1:231–32.
98.“Looking Back 90 Years,” Forward, 29 Mar. 1996; Jacob H. Schiff, Our Journey
to Japan (privately printed, New York, 1907); Carosso,Morgans, pp. 526–27;
Adler, Schiff, 1:213–40; Chernow, Warburgs, pp. 110–11; David Kranzler, Jap-
anese, Nazis, and Jews (New York, 1976), pp. 176, 195–97, 210, 240–41, 276,
330; Margaret Grodinsky, “An American Banker in the Mikado’s Capital,”
Japan Society Newsletter, 43 (Apr. 1996): 4–7, courtesy of Robert S. Rifkind.
99.Adler, Schiff, 1:237–39; reel 22 (JTS archives), Schiff to Count Okuma, 23
Feb. 1909; reel 677, Schiff to K. Takahashi, 24 Dec. 1908; reels 1977–1986,
files of Takahashi correspondence; Jacob H. Schiff, “Japan after the War,”
North American Review, no. 597 (Aug. 1906): 161–68; NYT,22 May 1908, 16
Mar. 1912.
100.Reel 677, CA MSS, p. 20; Kennan, Harriman, vol. 2, chap. 18; Tyler Dennett,
Roosevelt and the Russo-Japanese War (Garden City, N.Y., 1925), pp. 312–13.
101.NYT,16 Mar. 1912; reel 677, Schiff to K. Takahashi, 18 June 1915, to F. Polk,
10 Oct. 1916, to R. Lansing, 12 Mar. 1917; reel 1983, Schiff to J. Wilson, 30
Apr. 1917.
102.Best, “Schiff’s Early Interest in Japan,” p. 359; reel 677, CA MSS, pp. 3–9,
Schiff to J. Wilson, 30 Apr. 1895; reel 685, J. Foster to Schiff, 2 Nov. 1894,
Schiff to J. Foster, 5 Nov. 1894, to E. Cassel, 25 Apr. 1895; reel 689, Schiff to
E. Cassel, 30 Nov. 1904; Carosso, Morgans, pp. 426–27.
103.Reel 677, Schiff to J. Wilson, 5 Feb. 1901; Howard K. Beale, Theodore Roosevelt
and the Rise of America to World Power (Baltimore, 1956), pp. 200–211; Carosso,
Morgans, pp. 428–29.
104.Reel 677, Schiff to K. Takahashi, 24, 28 Dec. 1908; Adler, Schiff, 1:246–48;
reel 694, Schiff to E. Cassel, 15 June 1909; NYT,2 Dec. 1918.
105.Norman A. Graebner, ed., An Uncertain Tradition (New York, 1961), pp. 62,
67–73; A. Whitney Griswold, The Far Eastern Policy of the United States(New
Haven, Conn., 1962), chap. 4; reel 677, Schiff to E. Cassel, 15 June 1909. For
the sequence of events in China, see Carosso, Morgans, pp. 551–78; a very de-
tailed account is in Walter V. Scholes and Marie V. Scholes, The Foreign Policies
of the Taft Administration (Columbia, Mo., 1970), chaps. 8–10, 12–13.
106.Reel 677, CA MSS; reel 694, Schiff to E. Cassel, 20 July 1909, 10 Mar. 1910;
Carosso, Morgans, pp. 551–57.
107.Reel 694, Schiff to E. Cassel, 20 July 1909; reel 677, Schiff to E. Harriman, 3
Aug. 1909, to P. Knox, 24 May 1910.
258 Notes to Chapter 1