We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the advantage of the United States but for the benefit of the people of the Philippine Islands. “Every step we take will be taken with a view to the ultimate independence of the islands and as a preparation... The Foreign Policy of Woodrow Wilson, 1913-1917 - Stran 193avtor: Edgar Eugene Robinson, Victor J. West - 1917 - 426 straniCelotni ogled - O knjigi
| Albert Bushnell Hart - 1914 - 922 strani
...Wilson, which has been received in the Islands with deep satisfaction (see also I, American History). We regard ourselves as trustees, actIng, not for the...preparation for that Independence ; and we hope to move towards that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent Interests of the Islands will permit. After... | |
| Howard Benjamin Grose - 1913 - 1108 strani
...legislature. This would afford ample opportunity to prove whether the people are fit for self-government. " We regard ourselves as trustees, acting not for the...United States, but for the benefit of the people of the Philippines." That is the basal utterance. The new executive informed the people, however, that... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Philippines - 1914 - 500 strani
...that extent." (Speech at Lake Mohonk Conference, Oct. 14, 1914.) Gov. Gen. FRANCIS BURTON HARRISON : " We regard ourselves as trustees, acting, not for the...independence of the islands and as a preparation for their independence; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent... | |
| 1915 - 422 strani
...President authorized Governor-General Harrison, in his opening address, to make the following statement: "We regard ourselves as trustees, acting, not for...independence of the Islands and as a preparation for their independence; and we hope to move towards that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent... | |
| Maximo Manguiat Kalaw - 1916 - 388 strani
...has charged me to deliver to you the following message on behalf of the Government of our country: " We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the...preparation for that independence. And we hope to move towards that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent interests of the Islands will permit. After... | |
| George A. Malcolm - 1916 - 824 strani
...A statement by President Wilson, read by Governor-General Harrison in his inaugural address, was : "We regard 'ourselves as trustees, acting, not for...independence of the Islands and as a preparation for their independence ; and we hope to move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and the permanent... | |
| 1916 - 1322 strani
...Philippine the message of President Wilson, the main paragraph of which Administration read as follows: "Every step we take will be taken with a view to the...move toward that end as rapidly as the safety and permanent interests of the Islands will permit. After each step taken experience will guide us to the... | |
| Charles Burke Elliott - 1917 - 592 strani
...has charged me to deliver to you the following message on behalf of the government of our country : " 'We regard ourselves as trustees acting not for the...Islands. " 'Every step we take will be taken with a mew to the ultimate independence of the islands and as a preparation for that independence. And we... | |
| 1917 - 76 strani
...occasion of granting them a substantial majority in the Legislative Assemblies in 1913 said :— ' We regard ourselves as trustees, acting not for the...United States, but for the benefit of the people of the Philippines. Every step we take will be taken with a view to the independence of the islands and... | |
| Michael Vincent O'Shea, Ellsworth D. Foster, George Herbert Locke - 1918 - 888 strani
...urged giving them their independence; President Wilson in his first message to the Filipinos said: We regard ourselves as trustees, acting not for the...the benefit of the people of the Philippine Islands. Unfortunately, as so often happens, both sides go to extremes in their arguments. In general the Republican... | |
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