London-the Propaganda Movement

London-the Propaganda Movement • London in 1888 was the largest city on earth – Mercantile and banking center of the world – The capital of the largest empire in historyUK

London-the Propaganda Movement • Dr. Reinhold Rost – Librarian at the India Office – The first person Rizal contacted in England – Greatest Sanskrit Scholar in Europe – Lended Rizal the “Sucesos de las Islas Filipinas”(Events in the Philippine Islands) by Antonio de Morga translated by Lord Henry Edward John Stanley into english

London-the Propaganda Movement • Antonio de Morga – Judge of the Real Audiencia – One-time acting Gov-Gen of the Philippines – Author of the Sucesos de las Filipinas which was originally published in 1609 in Mexico

London-the Propaganda Movement • Reading Room of the British Museum – “breeding place of revolutions” – Was the most extensive library in the world

London-the Propaganda Movement • The Triumph of Death over Life – Sculpture by Rizal – Has a strangely haunting beauty

• Antonio Maria Regidor – Paid for the Morga Edition

London-the Propaganda Movement • Chalcot Crescent off Primrose Hill • Where Rizal stayed • Manifestation of 1888 – Gobernadorcillos of Manila presented the Civil Governor with a petition demanding the expulsion of the friars from the Philippines

London-the Propaganda Movement • Valentin Ventura – Close friend of Rizal from Paris

• Mariano Ponce – Barcelona

• Eduardo de Lete – Editor of España en Filipinas, a politically sterile publication

London-the Propaganda Movement • Marcelo Hilario del Pilar – Plaridel – Born 1850 at Cupang in Bulacan – Educated at San Jose and Santo Tomas

London-the Propaganda Movement • December – Barcelona colony formed an association of masonic character called La Solidaridad – Rizal accepted presidency – Launched a fornightly newspaper of the same name

• The political programme of La Solidaridad was to demand: – The secularization of the parishes and removal of the friars – Representation of the Philippines in the Cortes – Participation in the affairs of Government – Equality before the law – Freedom of assemblange, of press, and of speech – Wider social and individual freedom and – Assimilation

London-the Propaganda Movement • Graciano Lopez Jaena – First editor of La Solidaridad

• Other contributors to La Solidaridad – Mariano Ponce – Antonio Luna – Rizal – Ferdinand Blumentritt

London-the Propaganda Movement • May 1888- Gen Terrero left the Philippines • A few weeks later arrived his successorGen Valeriano Weyler – Native of Mallorva – “the butcher” – Inventor of the concentration camp

With Terrero out of the way, Noli Me Tangere had been formally banned.

London-the Propaganda Movement • Manuel Hidalgo – Brother in law of Rizal – Accused of being a filibustero – Exiled to Bohol

London-the Propaganda Movement • Gertrude Beckett – Eldest daughter of the Beckett family – This family being Rizal’s boardmates in the Chalcot Crescent – Another love affair of Rizal