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...some point during every U.S. high school debate on colonialism in the past dozen years, an earnest youth has pointed with pride to the Philippine Republic and its unflagging loyalty toward its onetime occupiers. Last week the U.S. learned with a jolt that this comfortable conviction needed reexamination. From Manila U.S. Ambassador Charles ("Chip") Bohlen headed back to Washington to report on the Philippine government's increasingly vocal antagonism to the U.S. Two days later, in an ostentatious bit of tit for tat, the Philippines' Ambassador to Washington Carlos P. Romulo was abruptly recalled to Manila...
Last week's display of mutual irritation was only the latest and most dramatic evidence of a progressive deterioration in U.S.-Philippine relations. In recent months prominent Filipino politicians have proposed anti-American measures ranging from economic discrimination against U.S. products to renaming Manila's Dewey Boulevard. Last month President Carlos Garcia declared that Asians "must move away from complete dependence on the protective might of the U.S.," began to drop hints that he hoped to develop an independent Philippine foreign policy based on close cooperation with other Southeast Asian nations, including cold-war neutrals...
...costly industrialization program, crop failures, fluctuating export prices, corruption and administration ineptitude have caused gold and dollar reserves to sink to a scant $100 million. (The nation's trade deficit last year was $120 million.) While the fat cats of the Garcia administration whoop it up at posh Manila gambling joints, 1,360,000 Filipinos (out of a labor force of 8,800,000) are unemployed or underemployed...
...moon is big in the Pacific at 5 a.m., and it shines through the window of a lonely, olive-drab Quonset hut. On the rocky, typhoon-tossed island of Culion, a leprosarium 200 miles southwest of Manila, Bachelor Harold Baar awakes, puts on a pair of shorts and tennis shoes, ties a red bandanna around his neck, cooks his breakfast and gets set for a day's work. Shirtless and hatless in the hot sun, he meets with ten afflicted Filipino families, shows them how to plant, plow, repair a tractor, tries to fill them with knowledge that will...
...bury-the-hatchet tour of Southeast Asia last year, Japan's Premier Nobusuke Kishi found the Filipinos least ready of all of Tokyo's World War II victims to forgive and forget. Only a military guard greeted him at Manila airport, and the Philippine public turned a cold shoulder. The stiffly formal meetings with Filipino officials were chilled by arguments over Japan's reparations payments ($550 million promised) to the Philippines. Last week, on the first anniversary of Kishi's icy reception in Manila, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia went to Tokyo. Hoping that flattery...