Word: zamboanga
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...MONKEYS HAVE No TAILS in ZAMBOANGA - Capt. S. P. Meek - Morrow ($2). Soldier stories of tropical U. S. Army posts; second-rate Kiplingesque...
...felt slighted, and perhaps anxious at the Secretary of War's going around asking the people what they thought of U. S. dominion instead of coming to the people's duly elected officers for his information. Meanwhile, the trim War Chief kept going, kept asking questions. At Zamboanga he was told that 300,000 Moros were temporarily satisfied with American rule (total Philippine population: 12,604,100). A fatalistic delegation of them presented a petition: "If independence must come, return to us the arms the Americans took away from us so that we may defend ourselves." At Baguio...