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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IV THE COMING OF WAR 'while the Maine lay in Havana harbour the s tension of the situation was greatly increased by an incident which at another time might have possessed little significance) On February 9, 1898, there was published a letter written by Senor Dupuy de Lome, the Spanish minister to the United States, whose tactfulness and influential personal friendships had made him a valuable agent for his country at Washington. It was a private letter to Senor Jose Canalejas, the editor of a Madrid newspaper, the Heraldo, who had recently visited America and had gone thence to Cuba, and it had come into the hands of Cuban sympathizers, presumably, through theft in the Havana post office. It was an astounding indiscretion on the part of a man regarded asan accomplished and experienced diplomatist, lit condemned Sagasta's policy of attempted conciliation as a loss of time s and a step in the wrong direction, and went on to record the writer's private opinion of President McKinley and his statesmanship: The message has undeceived the insurgents, who expected something different, and has paralyzed the action of Congress, but I consider it bad. Besides the natural and inevitable coarseness with which it repeats what the press and public opinion in Spain has said of Weyler, it shows once more what McKinley is?weak and catering: to the mob, and moreover a small politician /,0M/rorfr0J who wishes to leave a door open and to stand well with the jingoes of his party.) Self-respect compelled the Administration to take action, but the Spanish Government, instead of recalling the offending minister, allowed him to resign, appointing Senor Luis Pojo y Bernabe to take his place at Washington. (The incident had a very unfortunate effect upon public feeling in the United...
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