Read the passage from a speech by President Harry Truman.It has been the repeated declaration of the legislative and executive branches of the Government of the United States of America that full independence would be granted the Philippines as soon as the people of the Philippines were prepared to assume this obligation…the people of the Philippines have clearly demonstrated their capacity for self-government…–Proclamation of Philippines Independence,July 4, 1946
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show they would be able to govern themselvesB
declare their independence from the U.S. governmentC
state that they wanted to assume the obligation of independenceD
function as an independent nation for a probationary period