Note 29 — Chapter XIV · The Taft Commission
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This is what Judge Taft afterwards described as “a conspiracy of murder, a Mafia on a very large scale”,29 the characterization being made in support of his theory that “the great majority of the people” with whom we were then at war would welcome our rule if allowed to follow their real preferences, and that they were being cruelly coerced to fight for the independence of their country. General MacArthur’s view, however, did not support this theory. His report deals with this branch of the subject thus: