Word: insurrectionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Insurrectionist Foiled...
Perhaps Manuel Quezon thought back to another day or proclamation, less than seven years ago, when he, once an insurrectionist fighting against the U.S., was installed with U.S. help as the Philippines' first President. He knew what Japanese "enlightenment...
...Quezon first bobbed into view in 1909-a small, nervous, sallow man with bushy eyebrows, who had gone to Washington as Resident Commissioner of the newly acquired Philippines. A Spanish-Malay mestizo, born of schoolteaching par ents on the island of Luzon, he had fought in the insurrectionist army against Spain, afterwards against the U. S. invaders. Full of energy, brilliant, brittle, as unpredictable as a hummingbird, he spent seven years reminding the U. S. Government of its promises to set the islands free. When he left Washington he had in his pocket the Jones Act, which did not give...