United States Secretary of War Elihu Root predicted that the United States would go to war in a few years while delivering an address at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the birthday of the late General Ulysses S. Grant.
He stated:
The American people will, within a few years, have to either abandon the Monroe doctrine, or fight for it, and we are not going to abandon it. If necessary we will fight for it, but unless there is greater diligence in legislation, in the future than in the past, when the time comes it may find us unprepared.
The audience was stunned.
Newly appointed Governor of Puerto Rico Charles Herbert Allen arrived at San Juan on the USS Dolphin.
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