Ace wrote in
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[snip]

You're splitting hairs. It still sounds like independence was
granted. But if it makes you less humiliated, call it by another
name.

As I said, call it what you will.
It was a recognition of the facts that a succesful rebellion had
established. At that point he could have declared himself King
of Coney Island for all the effect that would have had. The US
delegation wouldn't have signed such a treaty of course but it
wouldn't have altered the basic facts on the ground one smidge,
jot, tittle, or iota.
To get a really good example of rhetoric avoiding unpleasantness
one could do worse than the words of the Showa Emperor (Hirohito)
announcing to this subjects that the situation had not developed
entirely to japan's advantage. That was a monumental understatement.

IBM


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