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Bloody conflicts would inevitably ensue in the archipelago, and just as inevitably the islands would become the prey of the first Power which in its own selfish interest took up the task we had cravenly abandoned.
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Roosevelt predicts violent conflicts and foreign intervention if U.S. policy falters in the Philippines.
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