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- GLC#
- GLC00782.19-View header record
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- November 13, 1915
- Author/Creator
- Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919
- Title
- to William R. Castle
- Place Written
- Oyster Bay, New York
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 24 cm, Width: 19.5 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- World War I
Writes to the assistant dean at Harvard (later founder of a professional consular service of the United States). Roosevelt encloses an article (not included) from the November 1915 Metropolitan magazine which had been vetted by James Brown Scott, an expert on international law. Roosevelt condemns isolationism, pacifism, Wilson's neutrality policies, and American indifference to Germany's August 1914 invasion of Belgium in violation of the Hague and Geneva Conventions. Includes interlinear editing and manuscript comments by Roosevelt. Letter written on Oyster Bay, Long Island, New York, letterhead.
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