[The Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) by Dean C. Worcester]@TWC D-Link bookThe Philippines: Past and Present (vol. 1 of 2) CHAPTER XI 29/43
I was waiting for him with a carriage at the river landing on his return and had hard work to keep him away from the cable office.
His feelings had undergone a complete revulsion.
He insisted that if the American people knew what we were doing they would demand that the war be terminated immediately at any cost and by whatsoever means, and he wanted to tell them all about it at once.
By the next morning, however, things fortunately looked rather differently to him. Mr.Schurman acquired a working knowledge of the Spanish language with extraordinary promptness.
Shortly thereafter Colonel Denby and I discovered that when Filipinos came to see the commission in order to impart information or to seek it, he was conferring with them privately and sending them away without our seeing them at all. Soon after we had made our formal statement of the situation to the President, Mr.Schurman had an interview with an Englishman who had been living in Insurgent territory north of Manila, from which he had just been ejected, in accordance with Luna's order.
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