My imaginary guest speaker 1 SHARES Share it! That was probably why I dreamt that Mark Twain suddenly appeared and started talking about how the USA conquered the Philippines. We are a World Power, no one can deny it; a toy one, it is true, but still a World Power; a funny one, a fictitious one, a brass-gilt one, a tuppence-ha’penny one, but a World Power just the same.” My guests were perplexed, specially those who had never learned these facts of life in school. “Some cabinet members believed it was one of those things, some another. Some cabinet members thought it was somewhere, some thought it was elsewhere, others thought not.

Source: Manila Bulletin July 24, 2019 16:52 UTC