Word: filipinos
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Severo Pancho, nimble Filipino, kissed a professional dancing girl in Manila when the lights were low and the music seductive. She brought suit. Last week the Supreme Court of the Philippines decided that a man who kisses a girl in such an environment is a "victim of circumstances"; hence Senor Pancho was "not guilty...
...Carmi A. Thompson (member of the onetime "Ohio gang"), held in awe by many a Filipino as the Personal Representative of Big White President Coolidge, has come home. He landed at Seattle, Wash., last week after some five months of poking through tropic seas, doffing his white helmet to Sulu chieftains, smiling blandly at high-strung Filipino politicos. Much more than all that is recorded judiciously in his comprehensive report to the President on the economic and governmental condition of the Philippines...
...expected that Colonel Thompson's report will urge, in effect, the striking of a bargain with the Philippines which will make them more restive but no more independent. Probable Filipino advantages to be recommended are: 1) Transfer of U. S. supervision from the War Department to a special bureau in one of the civil departments; 2) Replacement of Governor General Leonard Wood's "Cavalry Cabinet" of military advisers by U. S. civilian departmental experts; 3) Internal self-government with an elective Filipino Governor General to be allowed within a decade, provided the Filipinos behave themselves in the meantime...
...return for these allowances, Colonel Thompson will probably urge the U. S. to demand: 1) That the Filipinos postpone their independence dreams indefinitely; 2) That they withdraw their government in Manila from private business enterprises; 3) That they amend their land laws so as to aid in the large scale development of the rubber industry (in such event, the U. S. Congress will not interfere with these laws); 4) That stronger U. S. control be exercised in the Moro districts to prevent Filipino high-handed rule...
...withdraw from the Philippines before our task is done would be a betrayal of the great mass of Filipino peoples. Furthermore, it would upset the balance of power in the Pacific and might well be followed by serious revolutionary uprisings throughout Eastern Asia. The Philippine problem is more than a domestic issue concerning only the Filipinos and ourselves. It is an international problem