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...Filipino leaders have . . . broadcast representations of my writings with an obvious indifference to the correlation between their statements and the facts . . . contenting themselves with isolated sentences twisted from their context. Their one-sided propaganda has tended to create in the Philippine Islands a state of mind prejudiced to my present usefulness as Vice Governor. . . . Nor should any controversy about my views be permitted to embarrass Philippine-American relations...
...Balintawac outside Manila assembled last week 2,000 excited Filipino peasants to hear fiery speeches in Tagalog flaying Nicholas Roosevelt, appointed last month, Vice Governor-General of the Philippines. Ever since his appointment Philippine politicos have raised a great hubbub against him because, in 1926 while working for the New York Times, he wrote a book called The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem in which they thought he defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A copy of the Roosevelt book...
Battalino v. Fernandez. In his home town, Hartford, Conn., where he can draw bigger gates than anywhere else, Christopher ("Battling") Battalino, feather weight champion of the world, windmilled rapid, clumsy punches at the jaw, stomach and heart of slit-eyed Ignacio Fernandez, a Filipino who once knocked out Al Singer (see above). In the second round Battalino hit Fernandez in the ribs, doubled him up, then knocked him over with aggressing right. Like a fighter who has not trained and cannot, stand the slightest body punch, Fernandez went down five times more in that round, but stayed conscious till...
Married. General Emilio Aguinaldo, famed Philippine insurrectionist (1899-1901); To his third wife, Senorita Maria Agoncillo, 49, sister of much-moneyed landowning Filipino Gregorio Agoncillo; at Manila...
...Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley from his sick bed sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs opposing, in the name of the Hoover Administration, freedom for the Islands now or at a fixed future date as "disastrous alike to the ultimate interests of both the Filipino and American people...