Word: insularity
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Department has had no little trouble in the administration of one of its charges, the Philippines. The Collectivist Party dominates in its demands that the Archipelago be set adrift, be given complete independence. One phase of this demand has been serious friction between the insular legislature and Governor .General Wood. The independence faction in the islands sent a mission, consisting of Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Insular House, to the U. S. last Fall (TIME, Nov. 19). Senor Roxas presented his case to the President, and last week received a plain-spoken answer in the form of a letter. Said...
...Happily, I am not 'insular' or 'prejudiced.' I know America as well as I know Europe, and journalistic enterprise is one of the things your great country has produced which both amuse and amaze...
...Philippine Independence Commission?which is to the Philippine Legislature as Mr. Hyde is to Dr. Jekyll?chose Manuel Roxas, Speaker of the Insular House of Representatives, as a Commission of one. The Commission will go to Washington to explain to the War Department the Filipino side of the Legislature's controversy with Governor General Wood. The Commission will have four technical advisers...
...question of whether the Philippines should ever have independence; the Jones Insular Government Act made some eventual provision for that. The question is, should they have it now? Perhaps Mr. Guevara can advance arguments to prove his case, or even discredit the administration of General Wood. At any rate, it is good to hear the other side of the case from a sincere and intelligent advocate...
...history of the movement also is tolerably clear. The trouble arose over the interpretation of the Jones Insular Government Act. Manuel Querzon, at the head of an amalgamation of all the secret societies, wanted the executive made responsible to the Philippine legislature, not to this country. Perhaps the nature of the movement has since changed. At any rate the Philippine delegate to the United States has stated that the hostile legislature was opposed merely to the person of General Wood...