Arizona republican., 1919-08-25
HOW ROOSEVELT BROUGHT ABOUT
 PEACE IN 1914
First of Historical Series of Greatest Americans Per- iod Appears In Magazine Roosevelt = Peace maker" Is Title
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 NEW YORK, Aug. 24.-Josepb Buck lin Bishop for 30 years a personal friend of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt. and who. five years before the former presidents death, was commissioned by him Ito write the history of the period which covered his public car- eer." presents in the September issue of Scribner's Magazine the first of a series of papers which gives for the first time many interesting sidelights on the life of the famous American
 The paper, entitled Roosevelt Peacemaker.Y selected and arranged from the former presidents public and private correspondence, amounting to more than 15O,oOo letters deals with Mir. Roosevelt's efforts to end the war between Russia and Japan and which resulted in the Portsmouth Peace Con ference of 1905.
 For the first time, apparently. Is re- vealed the fact that Japan made the initial overtures for peace. Four days after the great Japanese naval victory over Rojestvenslzy's fleet in the sea of Japan on May 27. 1905, the minister of foreign affairs of Japan. the let ters show. eabled Minister Takahira, in Washington. to invoke Roosevelt s aid as mediator
 Amused By Jap Method
 q was amused wrote the president, "by the way in which they asked ma to invite the two belligerents together directly on my own motion and initi- ative. It reminded me of the request for contributions sent by campaign committees to office holders wherein i they were asked to make a voluntary contribution of 10 per cent of their sal- ary. It showed a certain naivete on the part of the Japanese"
 According to his biographer, every step in the negotiations extending over a period of three months, was taken by MT. Roosevelt without the aid of any of his most trusted counsellors, John Hay, his secretary of state being critically i'll, Secretary Root having resigned from the cabinet many months earlier and Secretary Taft being absent in the Philippines.
 "One reads the thick volumes of his correspondence with amazement bor- dering on incredulity writes MT. Bishop. Tt is incredible that one man could do so much and so we'll In no other task of his life was the abnor- nal energy, mental and physical, of Theodore Roosevelt put to a severer test and from none did he emerge more triumphantly His activity was a C ffrafa1c e fc rofs . inexhaustible."
 Practically Forced Peace
 The presidents activity was directed he said, to mot only steadily and ir- ! resistibly forcing the two warning na- : tions into conference but bring i ing other nations like England. France and Germany to the support of his 1 efforts. If Russia baked and showed i signs of refusal, he persuaded the kaiser to bring pressure upon the czar in the interest of peace. If Japan showed similar signs, England was ap- l pealed to. to bring pressure upon her Tn the end Germany alone really helped and Roosevelt gave unstinted praise to the kaiser ever afterward for what he did then"
 Tn all of this correspondence the colonel wrote without restraint or res- ervation." In confidential letter tc 1 Secretary Hay he referred to the kaiser as the monomaniac and "a l jumpy creature who has had another 1 fit" In another missive he thus char acterizes the former emperor of Rus l sia: The czar is preposter0us little creature as the absolute autocrat oi 1 150, ,000, 900 people,