Oldal 1 [1]
KeasNowl4. for December 1952.
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NOTE: This report was given to us by a very keen “panish
owserver, who has just returned from a Six-month stay for business
reasons, on the Philippines. He has been on an off on the Fhilippine
Island in the past 20_years and is associat d there with extremely
f@mportant venturese yuring this observer's stay on the bhilippines,
it was he who gave him the most accurate and valuable hintse His r port
then commands attention in view of its past accuracy.
ith the Republican victory in the rec nt elections in hhe
United States a reappraisal of the Pacific policies of the United
States seems to be in the cards. It is no secret that Mr.John Foster
Dulles has frequently talked over Pacific matters with the Philippino
leaders and that in many instances it is a fair infersnce that general
policy statements Philippino leaders sre close reflection to the views
as expressed to them by the American foreign policy expertse +t is
h nce in the political attitudes of the Philip,ines that a key to the
future Pacific policies of the United Stat«s can be looked fore
President “lpidio “wirino has made it one of the crucial
points of is whole political comeeipt to demand a racific paralled
to the Atlantic Pact. When Chaang-sai-shek visited the rhilippines,
it was he and Quirino who suggested the formation of a racific union.
At the time, the rhilippine statesmen suggestion met with reticence in
many areaSe Sut, as his foreign secretary, Joaquim Mlizalde recently
could point out, the reticence has greatly diminished since thene it
can be said, that yuirino's suggestion is now forcefully supported not ¬
only by “hing's nationalists on *ormosa, but also by the dapanese
governm nt, Siam and the governm nt of Mmperor Bao-bai, In the other
countries, esp cially indonesia and Surma, the idea is still meeting
bitter resistance of the neutralist elem ntse as yguirino visualizes it,
the time is very close at hand in which the first former step could
be taken by basing the racific Union on those nativns, which are
wholehaartledy in favor of it. if at that time it should become clear
that the United States are supporting such a scheme, as they undoubtedly
will under sHepublicen administration, it seems more than likely that
at least Indonesia might be influenced to join the tnione ihis is at
least the impression which quirino and his party ars said to have
it is quite clear that the proclamation of the racific
Union would have a considerable influence on the thinking of the
aSiatic people. it would have powerful appeal on the nationalist
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