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"President Theodore Roosevelt of the United States of America and the German Kaiser Wilhelm II, in the dispute over the German Blockade of Venezuela, 1902"
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A Matter of Extreme Urgency": Theodore Roosevelt, Wilhelm II, and the Venezuela Crisis of 1902:
'TR asked if Germany was going to accept President Castro’s arbitration proposal transmitted by Secretary of State Hay. The ambassador said no. Controlling his temper, the president replied that Kaiser Wilhelm must understand that he, Roosevelt, was “very definitely” threatening war.'
'In Washington, the Roosevelt cabinet met in closed session. In San Juan, Puerto Rico, a fast torpedo boat stood
ready to rush any emergency orders to Admiral Dewey. Admiral Taylor alerted naval intelligence to communicate with the fleet only in cipher, and he instructed his aides that the Caribbean maneuvers were no longer a proper subject
for public discussion. Nevertheless, reporters soon learned that Dewey’s battleship squadron was now headed from Culebra for Trinidad, only sixty miles from Venezuela.'
'The U.S. armada at Culebra was swelled by a flotilla of support vessels, including colliers and torpedo boats. Farther south, two battleships and four cruisers of the European and South Atlantic Squadrons rendezvoused north of Trinidad at a point only 125 miles from the Venezuelan
coastline. '