The Statesman and the Storyteller: John Hay, Mark Twain, and the Rise of American Imperialism by Mark Zwonitzer

Author:Mark Zwonitzer [Zwonitzer, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Algonquin Books
Published: 2016-04-26T04:30:00+00:00

John Hay suspected the kaiser would never risk a real fight, especially with the British navy nearby, but he didn’t much like what he was reading in the morning newspapers. “Once again such influential papers as the Heraldo, Imparcial, El Liberal, and Correspondencia are doing their best to make the people believe that a German naval demonstration at Manila against an American bombardment, or a landing in concert with Aguinaldo, is imminent,” the Madrid correspondent of the London Standard reported shortly after von Diederichs’s arrival. “It is supposed that Germany will invoke the necessity of protecting the lives, properties, and commercial interests of her subjects in the Spanish Archipelagoes.”

The situation in the Pacific occasioned a new set of instructions from Washington to Hay in the second week of June, which sent him back to the Foreign Office to confer again with Lord Salisbury. Conditions in the Philippines had changed and so had the president’s unspoken peace terms, Hay explained to the prime minister. McKinley wished to reserve the right to dispose of the Philippines however he saw fit. Salisbury continued to assure Hay that the United States could do as it wished in the Philippines and that the kaiser would get no help or encouragement from anybody at Whitehall. Her Majesty’s government only wanted to help, so Hay’s job was getting easy. But there was an interesting new turn in the president’s thinking with regard to the Philippines, and one Hay had noted. “[Aguinaldo’s] insurgents,” read the updated instruction from the State Department, “have become an important factor in the situation and must have just consideration in any settlement.”

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