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Paul Louis Charles Claudel, French Ambassador to the U. S. LL. D. Antonio Barcelo, senator from Porto Rico
...Lindbergh, punctual messenger, delivered the resolution when he reached Washington. President Coolidge also received a cablegram from President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker Jose Toussoto of the Puerto Rican House, confirming the resolution's import. Disappointed, hurt, President Coolidge delayed answering until last fortnight, when he wrote a long letter to Horace Mann Towner, the onetime (1911-23) Congressman from Iowa whom President Harding made Governor of Porto Rico five years...
Signers of the appeal were President Antonio Barcelo of the Porto Rican Senate and Speaker of the House José Tous Soto. Cabled they: "Ours is the only Spanish-American country whose voice is not heard in Havana during the Pan-American Conference. . . . Justice, nothing but, justice, is what we ask as citizens of America, as faithful Christians and as children of Almighty God, who gave to us the same inalienable rights which your great republic knew how to invoke when declaring for independence at the memorable Philadelphia Convention...