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To: Dayuhan who wrote (56886)	10/4/1999 11:41:00 AM
From: nihil	Respond to of 108807

"The famous dispatch alerting Dewey to mobilize his squadron at Hong Kong and prepare for offensive operations in the Philippines was at once repetitive [Dewey had these orders in December '97 when he sailed] and premature, and had no actual bearing on subsequent events. The main effect of Roosevelt's rampage was to being Long back posthaste to the Department the next morning, persuaded that his assistant was too nervous to be trusted with serious responsibility [2/25/98]." The message may have helped to keep Dewey on the alert (unlike the "war warning" message to Kimmel in '41). The effective orders to Dewey were send April 24 after war had been declared. {Leech, In the Days of McKinley Harper, 1959.