At Balintawac outside Manila assembled last week 2,000 excited Filipino peasants to hear fiery speeches in Tagalog flaying Nicholas Roosevelt, appointed last month, Vice Governor-General of the Philippines. Ever since his appointment Philippine politicos have raised a great hubbub against him because, in 1926 while working for the New York Times, he wrote a book called The Philippines, A Treasure and a Problem in which they thought he defamed their public integrity and private morals. The Balintawac meeting at which 20,000 were expected was the feeble culmination of vigorous political agitation. A...
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