Word: sakdalista
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...Propaganda. The Jap dropped propaganda leaflets while his fifth columnists on the ground (including members of the native Sakdalista Party) spread rumors of poisoned water supplies, of many another horror. The Filipinos were poor subjects. Like the Russian peasant when Germany struck, they knew only that the invader was trying to take their land. The native soldier fought with increased bitterness...
...last May Manila's torpid police suddenly woke up to the fact that a revolt was brewing. Before they could do anything Manila's communications with the rest of Luzon were cut. For two days there was fighting. Sixty people were killed before a radical group, the Sakdalistas, whose leader Benigno Ramos directed the uprising from his exile in Tokyo, was finally suppressed. Underfed workers and poverty-stricken tenant farmers continued to listen eagerly to Sakdalista and Communist agitators. Recently, however, the signs of discontent seemed to have ebbed...
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