Teddy Roosevelt: “I want to have the battleships as a provocative for arbitration so far…”

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I want to have the battleships as a provocative for arbitration so far as the other man is concerned.

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Republican · New York

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Roosevelt expresses his belief in the strategic use of battleships as a means to encourage peaceful arbitration.

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Teddy Roosevelt: “I want to have the battleships as a provocative for arbitration so far as the other man is concerned.”