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...government that will remove every trace of American supervision, inspection and direction, is the substance of information released by the War Department at Washington on Tuesday. This change of authority is going forward with the consent of President Coolidge, thus showing that the visit of Quezon and his companion, Sergio Osmena, representing the politicos of the islands, has already begun to bear more fruit than the promises of the last five presidents, cited in his talk by Quezon, to give the Philippines self government as soon as they were ready...
...campaign is at present undeterminable. It is difficult to believe that Coolidge plans to bestow upon the islands the British system of colonial government without some assurance that General Wood's charges of corruption in the elementary forms of native government were untrue. The ideas of Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena are born of the same stuff as was the Declaration of Independence, but it is doubtful if their island is yet ready to essay a trial in government that may result in a Pacific embroglio...
President Coolidge received President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate, Senator Sergio Osmena of the Resident* Commissioner Pedro Guevara, for nearly an hour (see TERRITORIES...
...outstanding native statesmen of the Philippines-President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate and Senator Sergio Osmena, his sphinxlike senior partner in the Nationalist Party-arrived in Washington to see President Coolidge. They had bundled themselves up in unwonted overcoats crossing the Pacific to a chilly continent. But they had smiled confidently on the trip because when they left Manila (TIME, Oct. 17). They had heard that President Coolidge favored transferring the Philippines from military rule under the War Department to civilian administration under a special bureau of the Interior Department. This transfer was second only to Island Independence...
...President having signified his willingness to receive them, President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Senate and his fellow zealot for Philippine independence, Senator Sergio Osmena, started from Manila with an entourage to call at the White House. ( President & Mrs. Coolidge quietly celebrated their 22nd wedding anniversary. Perhaps they read in the current issue of the ever-embattled Nation the following tirade about their 21-year-old son: "Who is John Coolidge? To what public office has he ever been elected or appointed? All we know about John is that he is a student in Amherst College and happens...