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<br />MARCH 25, 1944
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<br />PffiLlPPINE INDEPENDENCE
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<br />Slalemenl by Ihe President
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<br />[Released to the presl!I by the White Bouse Ma.reh 24] tha.t friendship. It is a source of deep gr~tifica.
<br />On t.his, the tent.h anniversary of the passage of tion to me to be able to say to the brave people,
<br />tbe Tydings-McDuffie act, I take the opportunity who are now bearing the yoke of Japanese domi.
<br />of conveying again a messagll of friendship and nation, that the return of freedom to their Islands
<br />good-will to the people of the Philippines. Ameri- draws closer with each Allied victory. The Phil-
<br />can-Filipino friendship has had a long history. ippine government temporarily residing here
<br />The bill for Philippine independence which I possesses all the attribl!tes of an .independent
<br />signed just 10 years ago waS a manifestation of nation. America will ful1il its pledge.
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<br />WAR REFUGEES
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<br />Statement by tbe President
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<br />[Released to the press by the White Bouse March 24] fury, should perish on the very eve of triumph over
<br />The United Nations are fighting to make a world the barbarism which their persecution symbolizes,
<br />in which tyranny and aggre..<slOn cannot exist; a would be a major tragedy" '
<br />world based upon freedom, equality, and 'just.ice; It is t.herefore fitting that we should again pro-
<br />a world in which all persons regardless of race, claim our deterIhination that none who participal<!
<br />color, or creed may live in pence, honor, and dig- 'in these acts of s"vagery shall go unpunished. The
<br />nity. United Nations have made it cle"r that they will
<br />In the meantime in most of Europe and in parts pursue the ~ilty and deliver them up in order that
<br />of Asia the systematic torture and murder of civil- Justice be done. That warning applies not only to
<br />ians-men, women, and children-by the Nazis the leaders but also to their functionaries and sub-
<br />and the Japanese continue unabated, In areas ordinates in Germany and in the satellite countries.
<br />subjugated by the aggressors innocent Poles, All who knowingly take part in the deportation of
<br />Czechs, Norwegians, Dutch, Danes, French, Greeks, Jews to their death in Poland, or Norwegians and
<br />Russians, Chinese, Filipinos-and many others- French to their death in Germany, are equally
<br />are being starved or ITozen to death or murdered guilty with the executioner. All who share' the
<br />in cold blood in a campaign of savagery, guilt shall share the punishment, '
<br />The slaughters of Warsaw, Lidice, Kharkov, and Hitler is committing these crimes against hu-
<br />Nanking-the brutal torture and murder by the manity in the name of the German people. I ask
<br />Japanese, not only of civilians but of our own every German and every man everywhere under
<br />gallant American soldiers and fliers-these are Nazi domination to show,the world by his action
<br />startling examples of what goes on day by day, th"t in his heart he does not share these insane
<br />year in and year out, where,'er the Nazis and t.he criminal desires, Let him hide these pursued vic-
<br />Japs are in military <:ontrol, free to follow their tims, help them to get over their borders, and do
<br />barbaric purpose. what he call to save them from the Nazi hangman.
<br />In one of the blackest crimes of all' history- I ask him also to keep watch and to record the
<br />begun by the Nazis in the day of peace and multi. evidence that will one day be used to convict lobe
<br />plied by them a hundred times in time of war- guilty,
<br />the wholesale systemlltic murder of the Jews of In the meantime, and until the victory that IS
<br />Europe goes on unabated every hour, As a result now assured is won, the United States will perse-
<br />of the events of the last few days, hundreds of \'Cre in 'its efforts to rescue the victims of brutality
<br />thousands of Jews, who while living under perse- . of the Nazis and the Japs. In so far as the neces-
<br />cution have at le""t found a haven from death in sity of military operations permits, this Govem-
<br />Hungary and the ;Balkans, are now threatened with ment will use all means at its command to aid the
<br />annihilation as Hitler's forces descend more heRv- es~ape of all intended victims of tlie Nazi, and Jup
<br />ily upon these lands. That these innocent people, executioner-regardless of race or religion or color.
<br />,dlO ha,'e already survived n decade of l!itler's We call upon the free peoples of Europe and Asia
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