Relations with the Philippines are known by the joint war against the Spanish colonial power that granted nominal independence in 1898, followed by the joint campaign against the Japanese occupation of the 1940s. (WebCorp)
The Government of the Republic of the Philippines (GRP), our current adversary in the armed conflict, continues to suppress the sovereign will of the Filipino people in order to perpetuate the interests of the foreign and domestic oppressors and exploiters, despite the US grant of nominal independence to the Philippines on July 4, 1946. (WebCorp)
Gumbel makes no mention of the conditions imposed by the US for returning Aristide to power as president in the first democratic election Haiti had ever had during its two hundred years of nominal independence.(WebCorp)