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African and European Addresses

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Title: African and European Addresses
Author: Theodore Roosevelt
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AFRICAN AND EUROPEAN ADDRESSES
by
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
With an Introduction presenting a Description of the Conditions under
which the Addresses were given during Mr. Roosevelt's Journey in
1910 from Khartum through Europe to New York
by LAWRENCE F. ABBOTT
1910

FOREWORD
My original intention had been to return to the United States direct
from Africa, by the same route I took when going out. I altered this
intention because of receiving from the Chancellor of Oxford

University, Lord Curzon, an invitation to deliver the Romanes Lecture
at Oxford. The Romanes Foundation had always greatly interested me,
and I had been much struck by the general character of the annual
addresses, so that I was glad to accept. Immediately afterwards, I
received and accepted invitations to speak at the Sorbonne in Paris, and
at the University of Berlin. In Berlin and at Oxford, my addresses were
of a scholastic character, designed especially for the learned bodies
which I was addressing, and for men who shared their interests in
scientific and historical matters. In Paris, after consultation with the
French Ambassador, M. Jusserand, through whom the invitation was
tendered, I decided to speak more generally, as the citizen of one
republic addressing the citizens of another republic.
When, for these reasons, I had decided to stop in Europe on my way
home, it of course became necessary that I should speak to the Nobel
Prize Committee in Christiania, in acknowledgment of the Committee's
award of the peace prize, after the Peace of Portsmouth had closed the
war between Japan and Russia.
While in Africa, I became greatly interested in the work of the
Government officials and soldiers who were there upholding the cause
of civilization. These men appealed to me; in the first place, because
they reminded me so much of our own officials and soldiers who have
reflected such credit on the American name in the Philippines, in
Panama, in Cuba, in Porto Rico; and, in the next place, because I was
really touched by the way in which they turned to me, with the
certainty that I understood and believed in their work, and with the
eagerly expressed hope that when I got the chance I would tell the
people at home what they were doing and would urge that they be
supported in doing it.
In my Egyptian address, my endeavor was to hold up the hands of these
men, and at the same time to champion the cause of the missionaries, of
the native Christians, and of the advanced and enlightened
Mohammedans in Egypt. To do this it was necessary emphatically to
discourage the anti-foreign movement, led, as it is, by a band of
reckless, foolish, and sometimes murderous agitators. In other words, I
spoke with the purpose of doing good to Egypt, and with the hope of
deserving well of the Egyptian people of the future, unwilling to pursue
the easy line of moral culpability which is implied in saying pleasant

things of that noisy portion of the Egyptian people of to-day, who, if
they could have their way, would irretrievably and utterly ruin Egypt's
future. In the Guildhall address, I carried out the same idea.
I made a number of other addresses, some of which--those, for instance,
at Budapest, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Stockholm, and the University
of Christiania,--I would like to present here; but unfortunately they
were made without preparation, and were not taken down in shorthand,
so that with the exception of the address made at the dinner in
Christiania and the address at the Cambridge Union these can not be
included.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT. SAGAMORE HILL, July 15, 1910.

CONTENTS
FOREWORD
INTRODUCTION
Mr. Roosevelt as an Orator.
PEACE AND JUSTICE IN THE SUDAN
An Address at the American Mission in Khartum, March 16, 1910.
LAW AND ORDER IN EGYPT
An Address before the National University in Cairo, March 28, 1910.
CITIZENSHIP IN A REPUBLIC
An Address Delivered at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910.
INTERNATIONAL PEACE
An Address before the Nobel Prize Committee Delivered at Christiania,
Norway, May 5, 1910.
THE COLONIAL POLICY OF THE UNITED STATES
An Address