116 THE POLITICS OF INTERVENTION- Roosevelt to Taft, September 28, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 480.
58. Roosevelt to Taft, September 28, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 481.
59. Taft to Roosevelt, September 28, 1906, Case 244/300, Num. File,
1906-1910, Vol. XXXVII, RG 59. - Sworn statements of Frank M. Steinhart, Maj. E. K Ladd, and
Gen. A. Rodriguez, September 28 and 29, 1906, Case 18730, General
Classified Files, 1898-1945, Records of the Bureau of Insular Affairs,
U.S. War Department, National Archives, Record Group 350. Here
after cited as General Classified Files, BIA, RG 350. - Taft to Roosevelt, September 28, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, pp.
483-84. - William Inglis, "The Collapse of the Cuban House of Cards,"
Harper's Weekly, L (October 20, 1906), 1505. Substantially the same
account appeared in the New York Times, September 29, 1906. - Ferrer, Con el rifle al hombro, p. 204.
- Proclamation of September 29, 1906, Taft-Bacon Report, p. 486.
- Roosevelt to Kermit Roosevelt, September 30, 1906, Roosevelt
Papers. - Roosevelt to Henry Cabot Lodge, October 1, 1906; Roosevelt to
Albert C. Beveridge, October 5, 1906, Roosevelt Papers. - Durand to Grey, October 8, 1906, FO 371-56, PRO.
- Root to Gonzalo de Quesada, October 1, 1906 Foreign Relations,
1906, p. 487. - "Speech of Wm. H. Taft, Provisional Governor of Cuba, at the
Opening Exercises of the National University of Habana, October 1,
1906," Exhibit 26, Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 540-42.
he Temps (Paris) observed that Taft's speech was politically wise,
for Washington had no desire to annex Cuba or lose "the moral au
thority" cultivated by Root's good-will trip to South America, he Temps
doubted that any "durable solution" to Cuba's problems would be
found. Sir Francis Bertie, British ambassador to France, to Grey, October
3, 1906, FO 371-56, PRO. - Memo for Brig. Gen. G. F. Elliott, Commandant, U.S. Marine
Corps to the Secretary of the Navy, based on a telegram from Col.
L. W. T. Waller, October 12, 1906, Case 24111, General File, 1897
1926, General Records of the Navy Department, National Archives,
Record Group 80. Hereafter cited as General File, RG 80. - 1st Lt. W. P. Upshur, USMC, to Dr. and Mrs. John N. Upshur,
October 5, 1906, General William P. Upshur Papers, Southern Historical
Collection, University of North Carolina Library. - Upshur to Dr. J. N. Upshur, October 24, 1906, Upshur Papers.
- Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 464-65.
- Reports of the Disarmament Commission, October 9—November
8, 1906, Exhibit 22, Taft-Bacon Report, pp. 521-33. - New York Times, October 15, 1906; Taft-Bacon Report, p. 526.