De Lôme Letter Spain and McKinley

== Backstory ==
In the 1890s tensions were slowly growing between Spain and the U.S. which started over yellow journalisms which said that Spain had sunken the warship U.S.S. Maine in February of 1898, that and Cuba and the Philippines where revolting against Spain with America's help.
== The Letter ==
In 1898 Spanish ambassador Senor Don Enrique Dupuy De Lôme wrote to Foreign Minister of Spain Jose Canalejas y Mendez talking about president William McKinley diplomacy towards Spain and Cuba which was then published by a newspaper and was called "Worst insult to the United States in its history" and ultimately led to the Spanish-American War.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_L%C3%B4me_Letter