National Affairs: No Freedom

Directly responsible for the Philippines as Secretary of War, Patrick Jay Hurley from his sick bed sent a letter to the Senate Committee on Insular Affairs opposing, in the name of the Hoover Administration, freedom for the Islands now or at a fixed future date as "disastrous alike to the ultimate interests of both the Filipino and American people."

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