Teddy Roosevelt and the Nobel Peace Prize:
(The Treaty of Portsmouth resolved the Russo-Japanese War)\
Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th president of the United States, He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his actions in helping the Russians and Japanese make an agreement on their fight over land in 1905 called the Treaty of Portsmouth. It was called the Treaty of Portsmouth because it was the city that hosted the diplomats while the negotiations were going on. The Treaty said that Japan and Russia would both leave Manchuria and return its sovereignty to China. Japan still got the Liaodong Peninsula and Russia got to keep their Railroad in southern Manchuria. This war and Treaty were very important in Japan becoming a major world power, and the United States being recognized as a major force in world peace keeping.
When Roosevelt was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize he received a large gold metal, a diploma, and a cash reward. At the time he didn't want to accept the cash reward, but in 1910 while visiting Europe he picked up the prize money. The reason he waited so long to get prize money because he didn't feel right accepting it during the time he was in office. While giving his speech to the Nobel Prize committee, Roosevelt explained his reasoning for not picking up the money until four years later:
"I think it eminently just and proper that in most cases the recipient of the prize should keep for his own use the prize in its entirety. But in this case, while I did not act officially as President of the United States, it was nevertheless only because I was President that I was enabled to act at all; and I felt that the money must be considered as having been given me in trust for the United States." (Theodore Roosevelt, 1910)
( Peace treaty building, Portsmouth Navy Yard)
(Map explaining the effects of Portsmouth Peace Treaty)
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