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[[Image:Doc 053 big.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Page 1 of the de Lôme letter]]

The '''de Lôme letter''', a note written by Señor Don [[Enrigue Dupuy de Lôme]], the [[Spain|Spanish]] Ambassador to the [[United States]], to Don José Canelejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lôme’s opinion about the Spanish involvement in [[Cuba]] and President [[William McKinley]]’s diplomacy. Cuban revolutionaries intercepted the letter from the mail and released it to the [[William Randolph Hearst|Hearst]] press, which published it on February 9, 1898, in the ''New York Journal''. De Lôme’s unflattering remarks about McKinley helped fuel this country’s aggressive, warlike foreign policy. Two months later, on April 11, 1898, McKinley delivered a war message to Congress asking for “forcible intervention” by the United States to establish peace in Cuba.

The '''de Lôme letter''', a note written by Señor Don [[Enrigue Dupuy de Lôme]], the [[Spain|Spanish]] Ambassador to the [[United States]], to Don José Canelejas, the Foreign Minister of Spain, reveals de Lôme's opinion about the Spanish involvement in [[Cuba]] and President [[William McKinley]]’s diplomacy. Cuban revolutionaries intercepted the letter from the mail and released it to the [[William Randolph Hearst|Hearst]] press, which published it on February 9, 1898, in the ''New York Journal''. De Lôme’s unflattering remarks about McKinley helped fuel this country’s aggressive, warlike foreign policy. Two months later, on April 11, 1898, McKinley delivered a war message to Congress asking for “forcible intervention” by the United States to establish peace in Cuba.

==Text of the de Lôme letter==

==Text of the de Lôme letter==

Nearly all the newspaper rabble that swarms in your hotels are Englishmen, and while writing for the Journal they are also correspondents of the most influential journals and reviews of London. It has been so ever since this thing began.

Nearly all the newspaper rabble that swarms in your hotels are Englishmen, and while writing for the Journal they are also correspondents of the most influential journals and reviews of London. It has been so ever since this thing began.

As I look at it, England’s only object is that the Americans should amuse themselves with us and leave her alone, and if there should be a war, that would the better stave off the conflict which she dreads but which will never come about.

As I look at it, England's only object is that the Americans should amuse themselves with us and leave her alone, and if there should be a war, that would the better stave off the conflict which she dreads but which will never come about.

It would be very advantageous to take up, even if only for effect, the question of commercial relations and to have a man of some prominence sent hither, in order that I may make use of him here to carry on a propaganda among the seantors and others in opposition to the Junta and to try to win over the refugees.

It would be very advantageous to take up, even if only for effect, the question of commercial relations and to have a man of some prominence sent hither, in order that I may make use of him here to carry on a propaganda among the seantors and others in opposition to the Junta and to try to win over the refugees.