The pamphlet urges the following seven point reform programme:
1. Permit Puerto Ricans to vote on the question of independence or genuine statehood Change the administration of Puerto Rice through the appointment of officials "who permit free exercise of civil rights."
3. Adopt forms of civil government in Samoa and Guam and grant American citizenship to the natives.
4. Substitute the native language for ish in school instruction in Guam, Independence Act and assure the realization of the act in 1946. Simultaneously secure for the Philippines Government "progressively minded American advisers."
6. Extend na! sponsibility in ye participation and ree Virgin Islands Government, 7. Permit Hawaii to become a state. on the Spanish Civil War throughout its duration.
To have maintained recognition of the Republican Government, he said, would have been to "have encouraged hopeless resistance, contrary to all the dictates of humanity."
Mr, Chamberlain then urged upon the Opposition consideration of the fact that, by establishing friendly relations with the new Government of Spain, they might hope to ensure that British interests should not be jeopardized by anything that had happened.
The conditions which, Mr. Attlee had suggested, should have been imposed, could only have been exacted by wer.'
"We could not exact terms," Mr. Chamberlain emphasized, "but what we could do was to obtain an assurance, while at the same time &rünting recognition unconditionally.
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