PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
DEBATE IN NATIONAL ASSEMBLY Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright MANILA, September 25. The opening session of the war emergency meeting of the National Assembly unexpectedly debated independence. Senor Jose Romero, a member of the Joint Preparatory Committee and high councillor in Don Manuel Quezon’s party, proposed the postponing of independence, in view of the adverse world conditions. The speech aroused strong unorganised opposition at first, and members of the Filipino Party openly mentioned the fact that the proposal for postponement coincided with the arrival of the United States bombers, officially sent to assist in the preservation of neutrality. Senor Romero said: “We talk ol ignonrny and slavery. We are not slaves, but free in all but form. We may be slaves if wo refuse to recognise the logic of contemporary events.”
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Evening Star, Issue 23382, 27 September 1939, Page 10
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131PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE Evening Star, Issue 23382, 27 September 1939, Page 10
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