The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-06-10
President Sends Friendly and
Identical Note TO Rus
Sia and Japan.
NO MEDIATOR Is NEEDED.
eeIIigsrents Are Advised to Open
Direct Negotiations.

Noose,elt Assured That HIS Action Would
Not BE Resented Had Informal Agree
ment with Other Powers Question OF
Terms the Probable stumbling Block
Military Party Declares Gar StIll
Has Faith In His Army-TOkio Not En-.
th,isiastlc Over Chances OF Ending War
WASHINGTON, June 9.-The first positive
move for peace in the Far East has been
race and to President Roosevelt belongs
the credit Of having made it.
Feeling assured that suggestion from
him in the direction of ending the war
would not be- UNIV elcome to either bellig-
erent ne acted with characteristic direct
ress and promptness in placing fairly and
squarely Lefore the Governments of Russia
and Japan a proposition that they get
tog ther without the aid of any third party
ard arrange terms for ending the war
The Pre- dents proposal was submitted
in the Jrm of identical notes telegraphed
Yesterday to the American diplomatic rep
resentatives at st. Petersburg and Toxic,
with instructions to present them 10 the
Russian and Japanese Governments. To-
nigh t. after i"fcITation was received that
the notes had been delivered to the Foreign
Offices Of the tclligerent Powers. Mr.. Loeb,
the secretary to tie President, nade public
the text Of the identical communication. 1t
follows;
The PRESIDENTS NOTE.
THE President feels that the time has
come when in the interest Of all mankind
he must encleavor to see if it is not possible
TO bring to an end the terrible and lamen-
table conflict now being waged. With both
Russia and Japan the United States has
inherited ties of friendship and good will.
II hopes for the prosperity and welfare Of
each. and it feels that the progress Of the
world is set back by the war between those
two great nations.
The President accordingly urges tn ;
Russian and Japanese Governments. not
only for their own sakes. but in the interest
of the whole civilized world, to open direc:
negotiations for peace with each other.
The President suggests that those peace
negotiations be conducted directly and
exclusively between the belligTents; in
other words. that there may be'a meeting
of Russian and Japanese plenipotentiaries
or delegates without any intermediary,
in order to see ii it is not possible for those
representatives of the two Powers to agree
to terms of peace The President earnestly
asks that the Russian Government do
now agree to such a meeting and is asking
the japanese Government likewise to
agree.
While the President does not feel that
any intermediary should be called in in
respect to the peace negotiations them
selves, he is entirely willing to do what he
properly can, if the two Powers concerned
feel that his services will be of aid in arrang
ing the prelimnaries as to the time and place
of meeting. But if even these preliminaries
can be arranged directly between the two
Powers, or in any other way, the Presi-
don't will be glad, as his sole purpose is TO
bring about meeting which the whole
civilized world will pray may result in
peace
KNEW IT WOULD NOT BIZ RESENTED.
The several successive steps that led
up to the transmission OF this momentous
diplomatic communication have not been
authoritativey disclosed, but enough is
known to indicate why President Roose-
welt was induced to appeal directly to
Russia and Japan to end their differences.
In all his exchanges with the interested
neutral Powers since the details OF Adj
nliral Togos great victory became known.
he has had the heartiest encouragement
Of those Powers. and the forward step
which he has taken meets with their ap-
prevail
But the President before determining upon
the course he has pursued, as disclosed by
the note made public tonight, was assured
that neither Russia nor Japan would be
offended over any direct peace proposals
submitted to them jointly.
The conversations which the President
has been having for more than week
with tho diplomatic representatives of the
Powers in Washington had for their object
the ascertainment Of the views Of the
Governments whose agents he had called
into his councils It is now known that
the European Ambassadors with whom
The President discussed peace obtained
from their Governments the most cordial
assurances OF sympathy with the Presi-
dent 3 efforts although there is reason to
Relieve that there was no concert of agree
ment as to the manner in which the
the helligerents should he approached
1t then became necessary to ascertain
how the warning nations, particularly
Russsia. would receive a suggestion from