Word: commonwealths
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Philippine National Assembly sat in Manila and President of the Commonwealth Manuel Quezon lay ill in bed. His friends feared that his illness might be a return of tuberculosis. But the agile little President was not too ill last week to know what was going on. He knew how precariously balanced was the fate of the British Empire and the freedom of the vast sea across which the sprawling Philippines face Asia. He knew that if Japan, already groping south, reaches for the rich empire of the East Indies, the Philippines will be in danger...
...responsibility of the United States." But his actions spoke more strongly than his words. He told the Assembly that he had asked Washington not to give the Philippines' accrued sugar-excise taxes and profits from dollar devaluation ($54,112,750 up to Dec. 31, 1940) to the Commonwealth for economic improvement, as originally intended. Instead he had asked to have the money spent on Philippine defenses under U. S. direction...
Although a commonwealth under American protection, the Philippines afford an example. The remotest grass shack districts in the islands are often frequented by sailors. These men in blue and white are helping to win the confidence and mutual respect of the natives. They are up to par with the best of the Ambassadors when it comes to spreading American good will abroad...
...that end they stole a march on the Government with a program of post-war aims which, coming from any group, would be startling. Coming from the traditionally complacent and conservative Established Church it was little short of revolutionary. It called for unification of Europe in a cooperative commonwealth, communal ownership of the means of production, more religion and less liturgy. On the negative side it condemned the profit motive and the Church's own financial dependence on ancient perquisites and levies...
Union Then. "After the war our aim must be the unification of Europe as a cooperative commonwealth...