OPPOSITION VOICED
PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
MANILA, June 6. Opposition to the independence plan of the President of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, Don Manuel Quezon, was openly voiced for the first time today by a group of wealthy planters and financiers. They contend that the Philippines are unfit for self-govern-ment, and urge the continuation of the Commonwealth of the Philippines and modification of the Tydings-McDuffie Act. The Confederation of Associations of Sugar Cane Planters will present a resolution to that effect to the United States. The Commonwealth of the Philippines is governed by a dual instrument drafted under the Act of Congress (the Tydings-McDuffle Act) signed by the President of the U.S.A. in March, 1934, and accepted by the Philippine legislature some weeks later. The instrument consists of a permanent Constitution and an ordinance governing the relations between the United States and the Commonwealth for. ten years from November, 1935. Whenl the ordinance lapses the Commonwealth automatically takes over full sovereignty and becomes "the Philippine Republic." The instrument was ratified overwhelmingly by the Philippine electorate at a national plebiscite and came into force in November, 1935.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 9
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185OPPOSITION VOICED Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 134, 8 June 1937, Page 9
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