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Messages and Papers of the Presidents, William H. Taft
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SPECIAL MESSAGE.
April 5, 1911
Explaining assistance given shipbuilders by State Department in contest for contract to construct Argentine battleships.
THE WHITE HOUSE, April 5, 1911. To the Senate:
I transmit herewith the answer of the Secretary of State to the resolution passed by the Senate of the United States on February 27, 1911, relating to the construction and armament in this country of two battleships for the Argentine Republic.
[NOTE: This Message was accompanied by a report from the Secretary of State explaining that his Department’s strenuous efforts to procure equal opportunity for American shipbuilders in the competition for the contract to construct two Argentine battleships was a direct consequence of the appropriation of $100,000 by Congress for the purpose of enabling the Department to render greater assistance to manufacturers in their efforts to obtain international business.
"This was the first time,"reads the report, "that American shipbuilders and ordnance manufacturers had ventured into competition with the naval constructors of the world, who were favored . . . by the prestige of long-established international relations and experience . . . . American industry labored under the added disadvantage of isolation,"the negotiations taking place at London and Buenos Aires, "while their competitors enjoyed all the powerful aid incident to . . . large colonies and great masses of invested capital "in Argentina. The Secretary regarded the final awarding of the contracts to American shipbuilders as a good augury for the commercial expansion of the future, and no inconsiderable achievement of diplomacy.]
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Chicago: William H. Taft, "SPECIAL MESSAGE. April 5, 1911 Explaining assistance given shipbuilders by State Department in contest for contract to construct Argentine battleships.," Messages and Papers of the Presidents, William H. Taft, ed. and trans. James P. Richardson in Messages and Papers of the Presidents, William H. Taft Original Sources, accessed December 6, 2024, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ULLAR99MD1JMHV7.
MLA: Taft, William H. "SPECIAL MESSAGE. April 5, 1911 Explaining assistance given shipbuilders by State Department in contest for contract to construct Argentine battleships." Messages and Papers of the Presidents, William H. Taft, edited and translated by James P. Richardson, in Messages and Papers of the Presidents, William H. Taft, Original Sources. 6 Dec. 2024. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ULLAR99MD1JMHV7.
Harvard: Taft, WH, 'SPECIAL MESSAGE. April 5, 1911 Explaining assistance given shipbuilders by State Department in contest for contract to construct Argentine battleships.' in Messages and Papers of the Presidents, William H. Taft, ed. and trans. . cited in , Messages and Papers of the Presidents, William H. Taft. Original Sources, retrieved 6 December 2024, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=ULLAR99MD1JMHV7.
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