DISPLAY IN PHILIPPINE SHOW WINDOW
In face of the mighty postwar upsurge. that swept through China, Indoehina, Indonesia and the rest of the colonial world, the U,S, government decided to grant the Philippines their ‘longpromised political independence in 1946, and Truman recognized the republic as a self-governing nation, Not to have done so would have risked development of a revolution striking out for economioe independence for the archipelago,
In addition, the U.S. imperialists wished to present tne Phillipines as a "show window" that would offer favorable publicity for the masters. on the American mainland, The strategy has worked fairly well for almost two decades,
But on October 2 something new was seen in the "show window,’ A thousand young Filipinos in Manila marched down Roxas Boulevard to the American Embassy demonstreting for more favorable relations, They carried signs reading: "Parity Is Poverty"; "Down with Neocolonialism’: "Uncle Sam Be Fair,” ; _ .
They milled around the heavy Embassy gate. Some tried to scale the barrier. When guards pushed them back they hurled signs and torches over the top and set out for Malacanang Palace where President Diosdado Macapagal resides, Guards using rifle butts injured several of them, . ,
Under the sowcalled "parity" clauses forced on the Philippines, speolal rights were granted to American investors, These were publicised at the time as necessary to “stimulate" American investments.
A young “Filipino news paperman was quoted as saying that many people in the Philippines are-"now convinced that these clauses were forced through your Congress by lobbies for big American companies who wanted to go on exploiting our markets,"
Direoteur-Gérant: Pierre FRANK. . oitéditeur),