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WHEN THE PEACE CONFERENCE began defies definition. Among the various sources consulted, the Dorling Kindersley Twentieth Century Day by Day, p. 82, gives the date of the first meeting as 2 August. The Mayflower’s entry in Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, Vol. 4, p. 282, states that Roosevelt introduced the delegations to one another on board the yacht on 5 August. Connaughton, The War of the Rising Sun and Tumbling Bear, p. 272, gives the date as 6 August, and that is the date used by Denis and Peggy Warner in The Tide at Sunrise, p. 530, as the date when Roosevelt introduced the delegations to one another on board the “navy yacht.” Steinberg et al., The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective, p. 480, and J.N. Westwood, Russia against Japan, p. 158, give the start of negotiations as 9 August. Of course, what is meant by the word “began” does defy ready definition. . . . appendix 6.4. the opening of the portsmouth conference ...

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