Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein... The Philippine Republic - Page 151923Full view - About this book
| Electronic journals - 1921 - 656 pages
...August 29, 1916, it was stated that "Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...as soon as a stable government can be established therein, ' '2T in section 5 of the organic act for Porto Rico, approved by President Wilson on November... | |
| Ramananda Chatterjee - India - 1927 - 1144 pages
...out of their birth-right. In 1916 the United States Congress pledged itself solemnly to withdraw its "sovereignty over the Philippine Islands and to recognize...as soon as a stable Government can be established therein." The only condition laid down has long since been fulfilled. Since, however, the men at the... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Philippines - Philippines - 1914 - 500 pages
...giving.the Filipinos their independence. The preamble of the bill now before Congress simply states that " it has always been the purpose of the United States...as soon as a stable government can be established therein." Most of the opposition to this bill consists of objections to these words in the preamble;... | |
| Indians of North America - 1914 - 646 pages
...for territorial aggrandizement; and Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...as soon as a stable government can be established therein; and Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is desirable to place in the... | |
| Electronic journals - 1914 - 790 pages
...forth that " it has always been the purpose of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty over the islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established." An amendment providing for neutralization under an international guarantee was rejected. The biJI abolishes... | |
| Missions - 1915 - 38 pages
...for territorial aggrandizement; and Whereas it is, as it has always been the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...to recognize their independence as soon as a stable govern-^ ment can be established therein; and Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose... | |
| Albert Bushnell Hart - Almanacs, American - 1915 - 898 pages
...$49,961,536 $36,662,227 $33,194 912 Coffee 397.761 492,883 824,512 2,948,733 4,055,622 5,061,525 ippine Islands and to recognize their independence as soon as a stable government can be established therein. This declaration was in the form of a preamble, which was followed by an organic act providing... | |
| George Hubbard Blakeslee, Granville Stanley Hall, Harry Elmer Barnes - International law - 1916 - 518 pages
...any stated time, but declared in general terms in the preamble that it was "the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...as soon as a stable government can be established therein" and that this should be done by giving as much of the powers of govemment to the Filipinos... | |
| George A. Malcolm - Law - 1916 - 824 pages
...for territorial aggrandizement; and Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...as soon as a stable government can be established therein; and Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is desirable to place in the... | |
| Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - Philippines - 1916 - 386 pages
...for territorial aggrandizement; and Whereas it is, as it has always been, the purpose of the people of the United States to withdraw their sovereignty...as soon as a stable government can be established therein; and Whereas for the speedy accomplishment of such purpose it is desirable to place in the... | |
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