Word: guevara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...question of whether the Philippines should ever have independence; the Jones Insular Government Act made some eventual provision for that. The question is, should they have it now? Perhaps Mr. Guevara can advance arguments to prove his case, or even discredit the administration of General Wood. At any rate, it is good to hear the other side of the case from a sincere and intelligent advocate...
...that the Philippine controversy has resolved itself into a distinct case for complete independence, it is fortunate that Harvard is to have an exposition of this case from Mr. Pedro Guevara, Philippine representative at Washington, tonight at the Union. the some 3,141 islands composing the Philippines, present a problem to our government every bit as complex as that which India presents to Great Britain. In 1899, not long after the Patriots' League demonstration of 1896, which resulted in the overthrow of the usurper, Aguinaldo, President McKinley appointed a commission to investigate conditions in the Philippines. They reported a lack...
According to a telegram received at the Union, Mr. Pedro Guevara, lately from the Philippines, has definitely accepted an invitation to speak at the Union on Thursday evening, November 8. Mr. Guevara; who will be able to give Union members first hand information no the situation in the Philippines, was expected to speak at the Union a week ago last Friday, October 19, but on account of continued disorders in the oriental dependencies, he was forced to return to Washington...
...Guevara is the Washington representative of the popular party of the Filippino assembly and next to Manuel Quegon is the foremost leader in his party. His party's friction with the Wood administration, which developed into an open breach nearly a month ago, has not lessened, but daily becomes rather more pronounced and more determined. As a result of winning for its candidate the senatorship of the district which contains Manila, the most important senatorial office in the Philippines, Guevara's party feels that it has the Philippines behind it in its policy of opposition to General Wood...
...Guevara is an ardent supporter of independence for the Philippines, desiring to place the islands in the same political position that Cuba occupies today. His address will be the first concerning the Philippines to be given at the Union in some years...