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Article: The Venezuelan claims controversy at the Hague, 1903.
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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Former Secretary of State John W. Foster, in his 1906 book, The Practice of Diplomacy, gave President Theodore Roosevelt credit for submitting the Venezuelan claims dispute to the Court of Arbitration at the Hague. Foster's contentions were challenged by a reviewer for the Independent. In a subsequent issue, Foster reiterated that Roosevelt had been instrumental in referring the Venezuelan crisis to the Hague Tribunal and cited documents published in Foreign Relations to support his argument. In the same issue, the former U.S. minister to Venezuela and son of the founder of the Independent, Herbert W. Bowen, replied to Foster's contention by pointing out that Foreign ...