Franklin Roosevelt actually said...

Please convey to President Quezon and the Filipino people on the occasion of the birth of the Commonwealth of the Philippines my sincere congratulations on this great forward step in the establishment of popular self-government.

Context

Proclamation 2148—Establishment of the Commonwealth of the Philippines

11/13/1935

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