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VETO OF PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE
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COOLIDGE, CALVIN. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to former Governor-
General of the Philippines Newton W. Gilbert, acknowledging Gilbert’s approval of
Coolidge’s veto of the Philippine legislature’s act calling for a referendum on the question
of Philippine independence. 1 page, 4to,White House stationery, with integral blank; hori-
zontal fold. (TFC)
Washington, 8 April 1927
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I . . . am . . . pleased to know that you think so well of my message vetoing the Act of the Philippine
Legislature providing for the holding of a plebiscite of the people of the Philippine Islands on the ques-
tion of Philippine independence. . . .”