Word: java
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...went to Germany as an American military observer of the German maneuvers. On his return he applied for the difficult and dangerous task of bringing order to the Moros in the Philippines, and on his way to this post visited Egypt, India and Java to observe the methods of dealing with native populations presenting a mixture of races and beliefs, in many ways a more delicate and difficult undertaking than the problem in Cuba. He was here conspicuously successful. From 'a slave-holding, polygamous, head-hunting land' he developed a community largely self governing. In 1905 he was commander...