Enrique Dupuy de Lôme

Enrique Dupuy de Lome y Paulin ( born August 23, 1851 in Valencia, † July 1, 1904 in Paris) was a Spanish diplomat.

Life

Enrique Dupuy de Lome y Paulin was the son of Isidora Paulin y de la Peña and Santiago Dupuy de Lome ( * in Madrid). Enrique Dupuy de Lome in 1876 married Adela Vidiela y Andeu. Her son Luis de Lome y Vidiella joined in 1913 as Attaché in Tangier in the foreign service, was chargé d'affaires in Belgrade and secretary of legation in Montevideo, Mexico City and Tokyo.

Enrique Dupuy de Lome y Paulin studied law at the Complutense University of Madrid, joined the Foreign Service in 1869, was on April 17, 1873 secretary of legation third class in Tokyo. On 13 June 1875 he left Yokohama in order to travel across the USA to Brussels, 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 secretary of legation second class and to Washington, DC displaced. From 1884 to February 1886 he was employed in Berlin. After the revolution in Haiti, a slave-owning society of the sugar cane industry had developed in Cuba. Initiated by the Continental System of Napoleon Bonaparte, a European beet sugar industry developed. 1887 and 1888 took place in London conferences to provide international harmonization of government sugar subsidy policy ( Sugar Bounties ). Enrique Dupuy de Lome was commissioned in November 1887 with the assistance of the Spanish delegation to these conferences. On 1 December 1887, he was promoted to State Minister Resident and Consul General in the Republics of Guatemala, El Salvador, Costa Rica and Nicaragua appointed. As Consul General of Honduras, he was a deputy in the Corte de Restauración borbonica en España in Madrid, on 14 September 1888 he was State Minister Resident and Consul General in Montevideo.

On May 12, 1892, he was appointed its first cohort to the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister for plénipotentiaire first class in Washington, DC, where he resided from 21 August 1892 to 21 February 1893. Enrique Dupuy de Lome was loaded at the beginning of the presidency of William McKinley for dining out. In December 1897, he was wearing his assessment of the international situation with regard to the insurrection in Cuba before in a letter to José Méndez canalejas in Havana. He explained that now nothing can be clearly seen and he regarded it as a waste of time and progression on the wrong path, now to send emissaries to the camp of the rebels or to negotiate with the Nachunabhängigkeitstrebenden that to date not as a belligerent party were recognized. As a fighting party, the insurgents were recognized by the U.S. government. In the letter he described as William McKinley

" ... Un hombre y débil deseoso de la admiración de la multitud; que siempre trata de un politicastro dejar una puerta abierta a sus espaldas mientras se Mantiene en buenas relaciones con los de su partido jingoístas. "

( ... A weak man who was inspired by the desire of admiration by the masses, a petty politicians, who always tries to keep open a back door while he stays with his partisans in a good relationship. )

The letter was stolen and the Junta de Cuba received the letter Secretary of State William R. Day and the Hearst Corporation, which with the publication of the translation of the letter on February 9, 1898 New York Journal - American by Joseph Pulitzer mood for an interventionist policy made in the Cuban war of Independence. Enrique Dupuy de Lome y Paulin had against William R. Day acknowledged the authenticity of the letter and was on February 8, 1898 resigned from the post of ambassador in Washington, DC.

Last page of the stolen letter

New York Journal - American William Randolph Hearst: "You provide the pictures, I'll furnish the war. "

On his return to Madrid, he served as State Secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. On 3 May 1900 he was appointed Minister Resident in Rome where he initially stayed June 9 to June 23 in 1901 and resiedierte 1903-1904. He made ​​a motion to withdraw from his post in Rome and died on the way back to Madrid in Paris.

For his diplomatic activity he was awarded the Grand Cross of the Military Merit Order de Isabel La Católica and the Order of Charles III. and the Order of the Golden Fleece, the Red Eagle Order and the Legion of Honor was added. From 1877 he published studies on eastern questions of the Slavs and Turkey.