FEAR OF FREEDOM
PHILIPPINE! ISLANDS U.S. PROTECTION NEEDED The Philippine Assembly heard yesterday the first- open appeal for the reexamination of the question of Philippine independence, which has been constantly advocated for 20 years by Philipino politicians. A member of the. Assembly, Mr. Carlos Tan, wliO' recently returned from abroad, said that he had seen how Shanghai had! been reduced to a. shambles,- and. observed, the growing* dangers which Were besetting the Philippines. “Suppose we get our independence now.” 31 r. Tan declared, “and "to-moD* row a, powerful fleet appears in -Mipiila Bay. AVbfit must we-do? Gentlemen,, if; we eper are to« come under any oth-. if we ever are to come-under any cthremain under the United States. sincerely believe we should! open eyes toi the reality and act accordingly.”
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Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 197, 21 June 1939, Page 4
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130FEAR OF FREEDOM Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 197, 21 June 1939, Page 4
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