Word: aguinaldo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Emilio Aguinaldo last appeared before the American public as a Philippine insurgent fighting for independence. Today, with the same ultimate object in view, but with peaceful intent, he is one of a delegation of prominent Filipinos sailing for Washington to lay before Congress a strong for absolute autonomy. The Wood report of last summer, declaring that the Philippines were not yet ready for independence, found very little favor in the islands, as was perhaps natural; and this question has for years been an issue between the two great American parties...