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KeasNowl4. for December 1952. peepee ie ronan 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 SiR