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Josephus Daniels—Simpatico
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 January 2018
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When Franklin D. Roosevelt, as apostle of the Good Neighbor policy, appointed Josephus Daniels Ambassador to Mexico in 1933, the President was highly vulnerable to the charge of not practicing what he preached. At the very least, many Mexicans wondered at the obtuseness of the Yanqui in appointing as ambassador a man who had ordered the invasion of Veracruz in 1914. In that year, Secretary of the Navy Daniels had indeed been the “aggressor,” and his Assistant Secretary at the time had been none other than Franklin D. Roosevelt. How could the norteamericanos be so incredibly callous? As it happens, by 1933, Roosevelt and Daniels had to have the Veracruz incident recalled to them, incredible, in turn, as that may seem. If they had “forgotten” Veracruz, assuredly the Mexican people had not.
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1 Daniels, Josephus, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1947), p. 4.Google Scholar
2 “Missionary diplomacy” is the term devised by Arthur S. Link to categorize the Latin-American policy of Woodrow Wilson, which followed upon the “Dollar Diplomacy” of William Howard Taft. See Link, Arthur S., Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era, 1910-17 (New York: Harper's, 1954), p. 82 n.Google Scholar and passim.
3 This is explicit in Daniels’own, Josephus Editor in Politics (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1941)Google Scholar, passim. A critical study of Daniels during the white supremacy era is Morrison, J. L., Josephus Daniels Says …: An Editor's Political Odyssey from Bryan to Wilson and F. D. R., 1894-1913 (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1962).Google Scholar
4 (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960).
5 Jonathan to Josephus Daniels, March 22, 1935, in Jonathan Daniels Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill, N. C. Under seal at present, these papers have been opened to me through the kind permission of Mr. Jonathan Daniels. This collection is invaluable to an understanding of Josephus Daniels' career, particularly because it contains many letters in longhand that are not duplicated in the voluminous Josephus Daniels Papers in the Library of Congress.
6 Jonathan to Josephus Daniels, March 5, 1935, in Jonathan Daniels Papers.
7 Josephus Daniels’ diary-letters were sent in multiple copies to various members of his and his wife's family (Bagley Family Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill, N. C). Copies of the diary-letters are in the personal papers of all members of the Daniels family and in the Library of Congress collection as well. The diary-letter of this footnote is quoted in Daniels, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat, pp. 302-303.
8 (New York: Macmillan, 1938).
9 “Malinche” ms., pp. 35-36.
10 Ibid., p. 11.
11 Ibid., p. 18.
12 Ibid., p. 27.
13 June 18, 1935, in Jonathan Daniels Papers.
14 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, undated [1935], in ibid.
15 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, July 5, 1935, in ibid.
16 Ibid.
17 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, August 17, 1935, in ibid.
18 Ibid.
19 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, September 20, 1935, in ibid.
20 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, August 27, 1936, in ibid.
21 Jonathan to Josephus Daniels, February 14, 1938, in ibid.
22 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, February 28, 1938, in ibid.
23 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, July 28, 1938, in ibid.
24 Daniels, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat, p. 31.
25 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, August 12, 1944, in Jonathan Daniels Papers.
26 See Cronon, Josephus Daniels in Mexico, pp. 86-87, 91-96, 104.
27 Pompa, Pompa y (ed.), Album Del IV Centenario Guadalupano (México: obra publicada por la Insigne y Nacional Basílica de Santa María de Guadalupe, 1938).Google Scholar
28 Daniels to Robert W. Winston, November 8, 1933, in Robert W. Winston Papers, Southern Historical Collection, Chapel Hill, N. C.
29 Daniels to Winston, January 28, 1935, in ibid.
30 Diary-letter, March 27, 1937, in Bagley Family Papers.
31 Diary-letter, February 12, 1938, in ibid.
32 Diary-letter, December 20, 1937, in ibid.
33 Diary-letters, December 4, 1937 and January 8, 1938, in ibid.
34 Diary-letter in ibid.
35 Ibid.
36 p. 317.
37 Ibid.
38 (1955), in the Jonathan Daniels Papers.
39 “Patrick Suárez” ms., p. 6.
40 Daniels, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat, p. 415.
41 Diary-letter, May 3, 1937, in Bagley Family Papers.
42 Diary-letter, May 21, 1937, in ibid.
43 Stephen E. Aguirre to Jonathan Daniels, November 7, 1951, in Jonathan Daniels Papers.
44 July 9, 1938, English translation in ibid.
45 March 4, 1937, clipping and English translation in Bagley Family Papers.
46 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, undated [1934], in Jonathan Daniels Papers.
47 Josephus to Jonathan Daniels, November 27, 1935, in ibid.
48 Raleigh News and Observer, June 23, 1935.
49 Letters of transmittal by Jonathan Daniels, July 6, 1935, in Jonathan Daniels Papers.
50 March, 1941, typescript carbon copy of translation in ibid.
51 Tugwell to Jonathan Daniels, September 27, 1954, in ibid.
52 Daniels, Shirt-Sleeve Diplomat, illustration facing p. 509.
53 March 29, 1943, clipping in Jonathan Daniels Papers.