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quiet until as General Merritt afterwards
But the whole scheme was to conceal the intention to assume supreme authority and keep Aguinaldo quiet “until,” as General Merritt afterwards expressed it in his report, “I should be in possession of the city of Manila, * * * as I would not until then be in a position to * *
— from The American Occupation of the Philippines 1898-1912 by James H. (James Henderson) Blount

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