07/08/1940
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"The Wheeler-Howard Bill offers the basis for such cooperation."
"It is, in the main, a measure of justice that is long overdue."
"The continuance of autocratic rule, by a Federal Department, over the lives of more than two hundred thousand citizens of this Nation is incompatible with American ideals of liberty."
"We can and should, without further delay, extend to the Indian the fundamental rights of political liberty and local self-government."