Enrique Dupuy de Lôme
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme y Paulin (born August 23, 1851 in Valencia , † July 1, 1904 in Paris ) was a Spanish diplomat .
Life
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme y Paulin was the son of Isidora Paulin y de la Peña and Santiago Dupuy de Lôme (* in Madrid). Enrique Dupuy de Lôme married Adela Vidiela y Andeu in 1876. Her son Luis de Lome y Vidiella joined the foreign service in 1913 as an attaché in Tangier , was chargé d'affaires in Belgrade and legation secretary in Montevideo , Mexico City and Tokyo .
Enrique Dupuy de Lôme y Paulin studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid , entered the foreign service in 1869, and on April 17, 1873 became the third-class legation secretary in Tokyo . On June 13, 1875, he left Yokohama to travel to Brussels via the USA, where he was employed until 1877. From 1877 to 1880 he was employed in Montevideo. From 1880 he was employed in Buenos Aires. On June 2, 1881, he was transferred to Paris . On October 7, 1882, he was appointed second class Secretary and transferred to Washington, DC . From 1884 to February 1886 he was employed in Berlin . After the revolution in Haiti , a slave-holding society for the sugar cane industry had developed in Cuba . Initiated by the continental blockade of Napoleon Bonaparte , a European-developed beet sugar industry . In 1887 and 1888, conferences on the international harmonization of state sugar bounties were held in London. Enrique Dupuy de Lôme was appointed in November 1887 to assist the Spanish delegation to these conferences. On December 1, 1887, he was promoted to Ministro Residente and appointed Consul General in the republics of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua. As Consul General of Honduras, he became a member of the Corte de Restauración borbónica en España in Madrid. On September 14, 1888, he became Ministro Residente and Consul General in Montevideo .
On May 12, 1892, he was the first of his cohort to be appointed envoy extraordinary and ministre plénipotentiaire first class in Washington, DC, where he resided from August 21, 1892 to February 21, 1893. Enrique Dupuy de Lôme was invited to a dinner at the beginning of the presidency of William McKinley . In December 1897 he presented his assessments of the international situation with regard to the uprising in Cuba in a letter to José Canalejas Méndez in Havana. He declared that nothing can be seen clearly now and he regards it as a waste of time and progress on the wrong path to send emissaries to the insurgent camp or to negotiate with those seeking independence who are not yet at war Party were recognized. The US government recognized the insurgents as a fighting party. In the letter he described William McKinley as
«… Un hombre débil y deseoso de la admiración de la multitud; un politicastro que siempre trata de dejar una puerta abierta a sus espaldas mientras se mantiene en buenas relaciones con los jingoístas de su partido. »
"... a weak man who is inspired by the desire to be admired by the masses, a political master who always tries to keep a back door open while remaining on good terms with his partisans."
The letter was stolen and the Junta de Cuba received the letter from Secretary of State William R. Day and the Hearst Corporation , which, with the publication of the translation of the letter on February 9, 1898 in the New York Journal-American by Joseph Pulitzer, sent for an interventionist policy made in the Cuban War of Independence . Enrique Dupuy de Lôme y Paulin had admitted the authenticity of the letter to William R. Day and had resigned from the post of ambassador to Washington, DC on February 8, 1898.
First page of the stolen letter
Last page of the stolen letter
New York Journal-American William Randolph Hearst : "You provide the photos, I will deliver the war ."
After returning to Madrid, he served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On May 3, 1900 he was appointed Minister Resident in Rome, where he initially stayed from June 9 to June 23, 1901 and resided from 1903 to 1904. He applied to resign from his post in Rome and died in Paris on the way back to Madrid.
For his diplomatic activity he was awarded the Grand Cross in the Military Merit Orden de Isabel la Católica and Order of Charles III. as well as the Order of the Golden Fleece , the Order of the Red Eagle and the Legion of Honor . From 1877 he published studies on Eastern questions of the Slavs and Turkey.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Francisco Barea del Corral |
Spanish Chargé d'affaires in Washington, DC July 29, 1883–29. January 1884 |
Juan Valera |
| José Felipe Sagrario |
Spanish Chargé d'affaires in Washington, DC September 30, 1892–2. March 1893 |
Railie de Muruaga |
| José Felipe Sagrario |
Spanish Chargé d'affaires in Washington, DC May 6, 1895-8. February 1898 |
Juan Du Besu |
| Cipriano del Mazo y Gherardi |
Spanish envoy in Rome 1903 to 1904 |
Luis Polo de Bernabé Pilón |
Individual evidence
- ^ Peter Mathias, Sidney Pollard (eds.): The industrial economies: the development of economic and social policies . The Cambridge Economic History of Europe, p. 71.
- ↑ Vicente Arribas Montes, Enrique Dupuy de Lome . (PDF; 59 kB) UN Diplomático Español en Japón En El Siglo XIX
- ↑ Political rule
- ↑ The National Archives and Records our documents De Lôme Letter (1898)
- ^ Public Broadcasting Service , February 9, 1898: Dupuy de Lôme Letter Scandal
- ^ Donald H. Dyal: Historical Dictionary of the Spanish American War, p. 114
- ↑ Juan Manuel López de Azcona, Ignacio González Casasnovas, Esther Ruiz de Castañeda (eds.): Minería iberoamericana: Biografías mineras, 1492-1892. P. 145. Juan Felipe Leal, Carlos Arturo Flores Villela, Eduardo Barraza, 1898: Primera parte. Una was. Anales del cine en México, 1895-1911
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Dupuy de Lôme, Enrique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dupuy de Lôme y Paulin, Enrique (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish diplomat |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 23, 1851 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Valencia |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 1, 1904 |
| Place of death | Paris |