The Government, Mr. Chamberlain declared in the earlier part of his Conditions in United States territorial possessions and edonies are "deplorable" and the forty-year fecotd of American administration Gf eolohies "is not a commendable one," the American Civil Liberties Union alleged in a pamphlet published here.
The pariphlet, entitled "Civil Libertiés in American Colonies" studies the relations of the United States with her Caribbean and Pacific possessions where conditions, except in the Philippines and the Virgin Islands, "are in a deplorable state."
The pamphlet surveys political conditions, particularly civil rights, in Puerto Rice. the Virgin Islands, ihe Philipines, Guam, American Samoa and Hawaii. America's promise to prepare her colonies for independent, democratic self-government, the pamphlet said, "remains largely unfulfilled."
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