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...power, will be got to speak at the Union tonight or tomorrow night. It Fortune favors the University, undergraduates will have an invaluable opportunity of learning at first hand what cannot be gleaned from the papers about the present situation and the rights and wrongs of it. Furthermore, Mr. Guavara will undoubtedly lay before his audience the case for Philippine Independence. The agitation for such independence began at the time of annexation and has increased ever since. If Mr. Guavara can be inveigled into paying Harvard a visit, he will certainly be assured of a large and interested audience...
With the friction between Governor-General Wood and the Philippine Asembly at its height, great interest will attach to the announcement that Pedro Guavara of Manila, Philippine Islands, will probably speak at the Union Friday night, explaining the situation in the Islands and emphasizing the need of Philippine independence. Mr. Guavara arrived in this country late in August and is acting in Washington as one of the two official representatives to the United States of the party now in power in the Philippine Congress. He is coming to Boston to confer with Attorney Morfield Storey '66, who vigorously denounced...
...Guavara comes as an exponent of the independence of the Philippines and he is more than a mere propagandist, because of the importance of his position in Philippine affairs. For many years he was a member of the Philippine Assembly, which corresponds to our House of Representatives. In 1916 the Congress of the United States enacted the Organic Act which abolished the Philippine Commission and placed in its stead a Senate This act gave the Philippines full power over domestic affairs. The Governor-general, however, had the power of final veto...
...Guavara's place in the conflict has been a prominent one since in 1916 he became Senator from the 4th district, which was the most important as it includes Manila...
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