Note 6 — Chapter III · Insurgent “Coöperation”
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Blount claims that the Filipinos hoped that the Treaty of Paris would leave their country to them as it left Cuba to the Cubans,6 and adds that having helped us take the city of Manila, they “felt that they had been ‘given the double cross,’” “believed that the Americans had been guilty of a duplicity rankly Machiavellian, and that was the cause of the war.”7