| Show Theodore Roosevelt Averted World I I War 20 Years ago Says Tyler Dennet Dr Tyler Dennett of Washington speaking in Mass atan at atI atan I an open conference declared d that President Roosevelt was ph 0 tug t the e II first American statesman to lo perceive clearly t that mt the time far east question is 13 is' is largely a phase o of European politics politics- and ani that the weight of his In Influence in a a warning to France and Germany Cpr Ger many quite possibly prevented a l' l I j conflict of world magnitude Dr Dennett also stated that there existed in 1905 an agreed memorandum memorandum memorandum memo memo- I of which a photostat was in possession the effect of which was to place the United States Slates durIng during during dur dur- ing the he Roosevelt administration tion as almost an unsigned m member of or the second Japanese Anglo-Japanese alliance This document was was approved by hr President Roosevelt less than Ulan two I II wc weeks ls before the time formal publication I I of the terms of the second Anglo- Anglo Japanese alliance and just before I m I the opening op of the Portsmouth peace pence conference This action of of- President President Pres- Pres dent dent Roosevelt did not stand alone I At the outbreak of th the Russo- Russo Japanese war eighteen months before President Roosevelt had been so Impressed impressed impressed im Im- pressed with the possibility that France or Germany or both oth might go I go to the support of Russia against against Japan that according to his own s statement at ment in a brief brier letter which I I have s see seen en n he warned both Germany German I and France that if th they y w went nt to the support of Russia he be would go to the support of Japan and amid take whatever whatever whatever what what- ever steps necessary for her tion It will be bo recalled that in the first An Japanese Anglo lo alliance signed In 1002 1902 this was the ob obligation I which had been heen assumed h by En England land We ma may therefore say that this warning which came pert onay Jy front from President Roosevelt to France and Germany German had only the value which attaches to the the- personal declaration r of the president of the United States Stales nevertheless the effect of or it was Yas to tomake tomake make the United States assume substantially substantially sub sub- the tho same responsibility toward Japan w which had hadI i I assumed in the first alliance At the beginning of 1904 as is clearly revealed In the private pa pa- I pers pel'S of Or President Roosevelt as well as as in the contemporary literature of the time Europe was dangerously dangerous clo close e to the brink of a world war France was allied to Russia England was was allied alliod to Japan Japan Four powers I were paired Germany had urged Russia into the war with Japan and anal 1 her future policy was then a matter of doubt and grave concern When President Roosevelt threw in in the weight of his influence by his warning to France and Germany i he localized the conflict to the far I east and quite possibly prevented the I outbreak of European conflict The situation was such uch as to make male it i t I Ise se seem u quite plausible that i If President I Roosevelt had not made this engagement en en- 1 with Japao JapaL al a a l England it would have been far more difficult dl l cult i and and perhaps impossible for him hi to I meditate the pea of a month later I |
