Editorial note — Chapter II · Was Independence Promised?
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“Hongkong, 12 Jan. 1899,—2 P.M.
“Senator Hoar, Washington.
“As the man who introduced General Aguinaldo to the American government through the consul at Singapore, I frankly state that the conditions under which Aguinaldo promised to cooperate with Dewey were independence under a protectorate. I am prepared to swear to this. The military party suborned correspondents are deceiving the American nation by means of malevolent lying statements. If your powerful influence does not change this insensate policy there will be a hopeless conflict with the inevitable results disastrous for the Americans.
“Bray.”