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Across the Pacific to Manila and Saigon and Taipei last week went the Vice President of the U.S. on a two-point assignment. Face to face with Asian leaders, Richard Nixon elucidated the U.S. position that collective security is wiser than neutralism. To anxious allies, he conveyed high-level assurance that the Geneva discussions between the U.S. and Red China portend no basic change in this country's attitude toward Asia...
...Manila for the shared Independence Day of the U.S. and the Philippine Republic, Nixon pooled the anniversaries-the 180th for the U.S. and the tenth for the Philippines-and referred to "190 years of independence." With President Ramon Magsaysay, he announced a new U.S. policy giving the Philippines title to U.S. military bases in that country, thereby settling an old point of tension between friends (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Word Among the People." From the moment Nixon and his wife emerged from a MATS Constellation at Manila's airport, the Vice President generated friendship. He shook hands held out from the cordoned crowd, relied with effect on his California Spanish, three times halted his white Cadillac on the drive to Magsaysay's residence to shake hands. Secret Service men blanched, but Filipinos loved it. Said one in ultimate tribute: "The word among the people is that Nixon is like Magsaysay...
Half a million people crammed Manila's spacious bayside park, the Luneta, to hear Nixon and Magsaysay deliver Fourth of July addresses. In a speech carefully tooled to make clear U.S. policy on neutralism, Nixon said that the U.S., which went through an era of isolationism, can understand the feelings of some nations that want to avoid international alliances. But free nations, he said, can find far greater security by banding together. Then he laid down a clear line: "There is [a] brand of neutralism that makes no moral distinction between the Communist world and the free world. With...
Southeast Asia. The President underlined the U.S.'s long-standing belief in independence for properly prepared colonies by deputizing Vice President Richard Nixon to be in Manila July 4 to attend the tenth-anniversary celebration of the Republic of the Philippines. The U.S. is expected next week to offer a grant of $35 million in economic aid to neutral Indonesia-about one-twentieth the sum sent in fiscal 1956 to allied South Korea, about one-sixth the U.S. Mutual Security budget for allied South Viet...