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Through the Isle of Jolo spread a familiar, deadly-chilling fear. On that speck in the Sulu Archipelago, southwesternmost part of the Philippines, the Moros were going juramentado again.
Usually it is a lot of trouble to kill a juramentado. The Moros are fierce fellows whose teeth are stained black and their lips red from chewing betel nut. A juramentado has the strength of a man slashing his way, with a wicked, wavy-edged kris, to a Moro heaven...
Nor could anyone explain the wave of fanaticism. Since going juramentado has lost some of its religious significance and is now sometimes sheer homicidal mania, it could have been just the excitement of the Moro harvest festivals. Or the out breaks might reflect Moro resentment against conscription or against the...
When Douglas MacArthur became Philippine military adviser in 1935, the plan was to train 40,000 Filipinos a year until the Commonwealth Army reached a total of 400,000 active and reserve. Today, after a series of cuts in appropriations, the Philippine Army is 75,000-Moros, Tagalogs and Igorots...
W. P. D. Fifth division of the staff is the War Plans Division. Its job: making plans for use of the Army in war, making estimates of the size of the Army needed for any wartime situation. W. P. D.'s top man is longheaded, ambassadorial George Veazey Strong...