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...bunk, General MacArthur was already trying to plan for a swift and overwhelming return. The cockle shell craft pounded noisily south through the swells of the Sulu Sea. The General was seasick; his wife chafed his hands to help the circulation. Douglas MacArthur brooded about his old command, and waited for the interminable journey...
...born a year after the Civil War; his major period of writing stopped in 1914, when a doctor reminded him that he would be unable to collect royalties in a cemetery. There were plenty of royalties-from his succession of Broadway hits (The College Widow, The Sultan of Sulu), and from his famed Fables in Slang. In the Fables, wit-coated little tales told in capital letters, an American generation found a peculiar charm, for George Ade reworked the goody-goody stories of his time through a screen of Big City sophistication, making them gay but not risqu...
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...
...past two months, juramentado murders in Sulu have averaged one every other day. In Jolo, the biggest city (pop. 6,000), Moro Aharaji went juramentado after being conscripted, chopped off the head of a Chinese baker, killed one Filipino soldier and slashed another before he was stopped by a policeman's shotgun blast. He fell dead on exactly the spot where the same policeman had killed another juramentado ten days earlier. Townspeople shivered, waited for the next attack...
...strange, superstition-ridden Moros are hard to control, harder to understand. The story goes that General John J. Pershing, when he commanded in Sulu, developed a workable formula. Once when the Moros went wild, Pershing asked their Sultan to stop them. The Sultan said it was impossible. Pershing had warships shell the coastal villages. When the Sultan demanded that the shelling be stopped, he was told that the Navy had gone juramentado too. After that, Pershing and the Moros got along much better...