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Kaiser Wilhelm, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, personally signed a two-page letter to President Sanford Dole, dated October 4, 1894, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. There is a two-page English translation. The German foreign minister wrote a one-page cover letter to Hawaiian Minister of Foreign Affairs Francis M. Hatch.
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Casimir Perier, President of the Republic of France, sent a personally signed two-page letter to President Sanford Dole dated August 31, 1894, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. The letter is in French and there is no translation.
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This is the original letter sent by Princes Kung (now spelled Gong) and Ching (now spelled Qing) on behalf of Kuangsu (now spelled Guangxu), the Emperor of China, sent on October 22, 1894 to President Sanford B. Dole, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. Interestingly, the name on the envelope refers to Dole as Prince of the Kingdom, although the letter itself refers to Dole as President.
The Chinese-style date (reign date) appearing in the Mandarin language and its English translation is the 14th day of the 8th month of the 20th year of the reign of Emperor Kuangsu. The English-language translator at that time wrote that that date was September 12, 1894. Thus the letter from Hawaii requesting recognition was received in China on September 12 and was answered on October 22. During that period China was engaged in the first Sino-Japanese war, which Japan won, forcing China to give Korea to Japan and also to pay a large indemnity. Despite being embroiled in a disastrous war, the government of China apparently considered Hawaii sufficiently important that it made time to send a letter to Sanford B. Dole granting diplomatic recognition to the Republic of Hawaii (although it took six weeks to do so). Read the rest of this entry »
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On September 26, 1894 the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile sent a two-page letter on behalf of his government to President Sanford B. Dole, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. The letter, in Spanish, was received in Honolulu on December 12. There is no English translation.
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Queen Victoria of Britain personally signed a two-page letter to President Sanford Dole, dated September 19, 1894, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. She signed the letter “Your good friend” Victoria. The photographs show the original of that letter.
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The President of the Republic of the United States of Brazil sent a letter on September 29, 1894 to President Dole, written in Portuguese, recognizing the Republic. The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil sent an accompanying cover letter to Hawaii’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Francis M. Hatch. No English translations have survived.
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King Leopold II of Belgium personally signed a letter to President Dole dated October 20, 1894, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. His Minister of Foreign Affairs also wrote an accompanying cover letter to his Hawaiian counterpart. Both letters are in French and there is no translation.
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Francis Joseph the First, Emperor of Austria, King of Bohemia, and Apostolic King of Hungary, personally signed a letter dated January 1, 1895, written in Latin, to President Sanford B. Dole, recognizing the Republic of Hawaii. This is the remnant of the once-powerful Austro-Hungarian Empire, still using Latin for formal diplomatic proclamations.
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On January 24, 1895 ex-queen Liliuokalani signed a five-page letter of abdication and a one-page oath of loyalty to the Republic of Hawaii. Six witnesses including her personal attorney and her cabinet ministers signed a statement certifying that she had freely and voluntarily signed in their presence. Notary W.L. Stanley also notarized the documents. Knowing that at least 19 nations had already recognized the Republic of Hawaii, and that the attempted counter-revolution by Robert Wilcox had been crushed earlier in the month, Liliuokalani decisively ended any hope for the monarchy and pledged her loyalty to the Republic. Thus Liliuokalani herself formally recognized the Republic — her abdication and loyalty oath belong among the letters whereby heads of government around the world (including Liliuokalani for those who believed her position as head of state for the Kingdom of Hawaii was still viable) gave de jure recognition to the Republic as the rightful government of Hawaii.
Mar 18
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America is in an uproar about the anti-American and anti-Caucasian rhetoric of Barack Obama’s pastor, who has been his friend and mentor for 20 years.But here in Hawaii anti-American and anti-“haole” rhetoric are accepted as normal.   People are accustomed to hearing UH Professor Haunani-Kay Trask rail against “the power of a white country called the United States of white America. … Learn your history, and then you will know which side of history you belong on.  And you do not belong on the American side.  You do not belong on the Hawai’i state side.  You belong on the side of your people — lahui Hawai’i [racially defined Hawaiians]  On December 1, 2003 Eric Poohina wrote in the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:  “Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden are not the enemy of the Hawaiian people and the Hawaiian nation. The United States is the No. 1 enemy of the Hawaiian people and the Hawaiian nation.”  On November 25, 2005 he wrote “The U.S. should be concentrating on the evacuation of its military troops in Hawaii and the restoration of the government of the independent nation state of Hawaii to the kanaka maoli, or Hawaiian nationals, the aboriginal people of Hawaii.”   On August 6, 2005 Governor Linda Lingle herself stood next to Lieutenant Governor Duke Aiona at Iolani Palace, both wearing the red shirt of 15,000 protesters supporting racial segregation at Kamehameha School.  In her speech she could not possibly miss seeing huge anti-American signs with phrases like these: “We don’t need no American government.  Don’t like to see too much foreign power here cause Western influence been killing us for years.” and “We are not American. We will die as Hawaiians.” She could no more miss seeing those signs than Barack Obama could miss the rhetoric of his pastor of 20 years.  Acceptance of hate-filled rhetoric in Hawaii is fueled by the apology resolution of 1993, which is filled with twisted history and outright falsehoods, and forms the basis for the Akaka bill.  Let’s hope the apology resolution will be repealed as part of a Congressional resolution congratulating Hawaii on the 50th anniversary of statehood.   For a more detailed analysis, see http://tinyurl.com/2mxj8sÂ
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