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...From Manila last week, three Douglas C-118 transports and 18 men of the U.S. Air Force took off on a 57-day, 11,000-mile trip to Geneva, Switzerland. The C-118s had gone all the way from McGuire Air Force Base, N.J. to pick up 192 touring delegates of Moral Re-Armament (only 55 of them Americans) and ferry them slowly around Asia and the Middle East, winding up next September in Geneva...
...suit in a matter of days. In Bangkok, with a temperature of 105° onstage and no fans, U.S. Ambassador John Peurifoy came backstage to insist that the men take off their white jackets. After that they often played in shirtsleeves, delicately abandoning suspenders in favor of belts. In Manila an enthusiast presented them with sport shirts decorated with pictures of Maestro Arturo Toscanini, who trained the orchestra (as the NBC Symphony), and left in the spring...
From dark shadows in Manila Bay rise dozens of twisted bits of rusty ship superstructures, a menace to navigation, an eyesore, a jagged Reminder of the Japanese invasion. Since Filipinos think that Japan should clear the mess it left in Manila Bay, the debris is also a constant reminder of their claim for reparations from Japan. That claim has gone unsettled and unpaid for eight years...
...Visiting Manila in 1946, General Dwight Eisenhower (then Chief of Staff of the Army) said the destruction wrought there by the Japanese before they were driven out was matched by only one other city he had seen: Warsaw. Originally, the Philippines demanded $8 billion in reparations, a figure which included $1,000 for each of the 91,180 Filipinos who died at the hands of the Japanese. Since then, some of the legacy of hatred has diminished, and so have Philippine demands. Four months ago, Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay got down to cases by asking Japanese Premier Ichiro Hatoyama...
...last fortnight, the Philippines had reduced its claim by 90%. It asked only $20 million in cash, $30 million for "services," including ridding Manila Bay of its sunken hulks, the rest in capital goods, and investment loans. Still the Japanese balked. Last week Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu hinted to the Japanese Diet that he might compromise between Manila's $800 million demand and Japan's last offer of $400 million...