“A New West in Mindanao”: Settler Fantasies on the U.S. Imperial Fringe

"The notion that Mindanao could be settled and developed by foreign populations persisted into the Commonwealth period. In the late 1930s, policy makers briefly entertained the island as a new homeland for the persecuted Jewish population of Germany." src

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"The notion that Mindanao could be settled and developed by foreign populations persisted into the Commonwealth period. In the late 1930s, policy makers briefly entertained the island as a new homeland for the persecuted Jewish population of Germany." htt

Blast from the past readings about the complicated Mindanao-US connection: https://t.co/qS1bIBSeY0 https://t.co/cMw8eKO9jI https://t.co/6iXwEIXfgQ https://t.co/tJlVgJWCjr