Word: archipelago
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...friends were talking about another U. S. colonial venture at the other end of the world, which had not prospered so well. In particular, the southern part of the Philippine archipelago known as the Department of Mindanao, stretching to Borneo, was in a state of completely uncontrolled savagery. It was inhabited by Moros ? bloodthirsty, polygamous, Mohammedan headhunters ? who lived in inaccessible fever-infected jungles Their pleasure was to raid, burn, slay, crucify, abduct. Their slave-hunts extended ip to Manila, their piracy for hundreds of miles. Spanish Captains-General, after three centuries of futile effort, had long since...
...than 3300 square feet of exhibition space, and in them are now being installed the ethnological collections form Tibet, Burma, and northern India, secured by professor Dixon; the collections recently acquired from the native peoples of Siberia, including the Chukchi, Yakut, Samoyed, and Goldi; and those from the Malay Archipelago, the Philippine Island, and certain other group of the western pacific...
...with which Congress greeted the recent speech of Senator King on the subject shows that the government is as reluctant as ever to give up this profitable possession. On this occasion it was asserted that American dominion was being used as a cloak to exploit the resources of the archipelago...
...have recently agreed to arbitrate a dispute with the Netherlands concerning an island in the Philippine archipelago; it might have gone to the new Court, but we sent it to a single arbitrator in his capacity as a member of the old Permanent Court of Arbitration, though he happens to be President of the World Court. We have recently renewed numerous old arbitration treaties, agreeing that disputes will be sent to the World Court instead of the old Permanent Court of Arbitration, if the Senate consents to President Harding's proposal. I have no doubt that when the United States...
...salute you, gentlemen, from this balmy archipelago...