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...icily ignored it.) He proclaimed again & again that the U.S. would recognize no territorial gains based on conquest. At every turn in his career for 30 years Henry Stimson's attention was focused on the international scene. He not only got around, meeting Mussolini, Laval, the Sultan of Sulu and many another world character, he also consistently stuck to the view that the U.S. could not merely look inwardly to its own security, that it could not long remain safe in a world where aggressors were allowed to roam free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY: Secretary of War | 8/25/1941 | See Source »

...opinion of both men, are highly strategic, but at the same time would be very hard to hold against Japan because of the relative naval power. Roosevelt pointed out in particular that the island of Mindanao, part of our Philippines and key point in the defense of the Sulu Sea, has a large Japanese population, and if it were shut off in addition to Singapore, our Oriental holdings would be worthless...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "No Crisis In Far-East Today' Fairbank and Roosevelt Claim | 2/25/1941 | See Source »

...Sulu, Andrew G. C. Gage's graceful pointer bitch, found only one covey, showing much of the style but little of the nose for birds which won her last year's championship. Homewood Flirtatious, the 1935 winner, did no better. Famed Doctor Blue Willing has won more major field trials than any living bird dog, but the National has always eluded him. Making his fifth try this year, the gallant, hammer-headed old pointer seemed shaky and uncertain, spent much time roaming off course, located only two coveys. Saddler, a 4-year-old pointer who should have known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Animals: Joe & Sam | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

...balance. Sultan Wasit was popular with the great majority of his people. If they once come to believe that Dayang Dayang or her Filipino friends conspired to poison him, Moros from Borneo, Celebes and Java can be expected to come to the aid of their brothers in the Sulu Archipelago. Then the day of the Moros' inevitable revolt against the masters they despise will be at hand, a struggle which the Moros, outnumbered and unarmed, cannot win, but in which they as born fighting men will doubtless take heavy toll of cocky Christian Filipinos...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: Wasit to Paradise | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

Died. Rajah Muda Mawalil Wasit Kiram, since July Sultan of Sulu; of heart disease; in Maimbung, Jolo Island, the Philippines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 30, 1936 | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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