Word: filipinos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disloyal to the American people in time of peace when we were loyal to them in time of war," said Mr. Pedro Guevara, Filipino commissioner in Washington while discussing at the Union last night some of the newspaper propaganda which is responsible for the feeling of Americans that the Filipinos are on the verge of a revolt...
...Guevara is one of the two resident commissioners who represent the Filipino government in Washington, and in this capacity he has made several addresses in the east. He comes to Boston primarily to confer with Mr. Moorfield Storey '66, a Boston attorney, who was an ardent advocate of independence for the Philippines at the time when the United States withdrew its military authority from the islands after the Spanish-American war. Mr. Storey will introduce Mr. Guevara this evening...
...Filipino politics Mr. Guevara has been an eminent figure for many years. After studying law at the University of St. Thomas in Manila, an institution founded 25 years before the founding of Harvard University in 1636, he joined the Filipino insurgents against the Spanish government in 1897, and after the Spanish-American War he continued in the insurgent ranks as a colonel, now fighting the United States administration. When the insurrection was put down, he returned to private life...
...elected a member of the Philippine Assembly. In 1916 when the Organic Act of Congress, often called the Jones act, created a Filipino senate, he became one of 24 Filipino senators. In his party, which has continually advocated independence for the islands, he has ranked in leadership only to Manuel Quezon. He resigned his senatorship in order to represent his government at Washington...
...intention of committing arson. They capitalize politically the popular emotion which can be inflamed by an appeal for independence. They do not want an unsuccessful attempt at revolution. They want the Philippine Government placed in the hands of Filipinos?in their own hands?by the appointment of a Filipino Governor or by independence...