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- GLC#
- GLC01625.03
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- July 14, 1902
- Author/Creator
- Root, Elihu, 1845-1937
- Title
- to William Howard Taft
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 7 p. :
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Progressive Era to New Era, 1900-1929
- Sub-Era
- The Politics of Reform
Copy of a telegram from Secretary of War Root to William Howard Taft. Root thanks him for the successful result of his negotiations with the Vatican about the Friar Lands in the Philippines. He explains the position of the United States government toward these lands. He is to represent this position to the Philippine government and to church authorities in the Philippines.
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