FDR: “We have got to move, the way we did in the Philippines, to teach them…”

On the recordFebruary 4, 1944

We have got to move, the way we did in the Philippines, to teach them self-government.

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Democratic · New York

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Excerpts from the Press Conference for the Negro Newspaper Publishers Association

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