Mr, Gruening Gives His Opinions on Rights Washington. Nov. 20.
A Democracy like the United States "has no business having colonies," Mr. Ernest H. Gruening, direc-for of the Division of Territories and Island Possessions of the Department of Interior, told the United Press yesterday after fifty years of Government service.
Mr. Gruening recommended preparing American territories for eventual political equality with American states, and refuted criticism that the United States is seeking to expand its colonial possessions, He also ridiculed assertions that the United States is guilty of oppressing dependent areas. All areas under the American flag, he pointed out, have some degree of autonomy varying from the commonwealth status of the Philippines to the organized ter-Titorial status of Hawaii——United Press.
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