The Philippines shunted aside

President Roosevelt gave the Philippine Government a seat in the Pacific War Council. When the
Japenese-American War ended, the United States gave the Philippines the same shabby treatment that
she had given her wartime ally 47 years earlier following the Spanish-American War.

United states instituted neo-economic imperialism in the Philippines. It was a second edition of the Platt
Amendment for Cuba.

United States Impositions on the Philippines

The United States reneged on MacArthur’s promise to give Filipino soldiers serving in the United States
Army pay equal to those of the American soldiers, on the excuse that it would disrupt wage and salary
standards of the Filipinos.

The indifferent economic development of the country at least during the first two decades that followed
the grant of formal independence.

This policy was the result of the Dodds report, as a result of this policy, industrialization in the
Philippines suffered severe setbacks and delay; efforts in this direction started only during the
administration of President Elpidio Quirino.

Quezon’s Last disservice

United states adopted a policy of maintaining military bases in the Philippines, even after the granted of
Independence.

Quezon’s actions betrays all too clearly the fact that his opposition to the first independence Act was, as
his critics then pointed out, motivated by purely personal considerations.

The lessons from the wars

To save democracy in our part of the world, for that matter-military force is not the answer, Neither the
first world war, nor the Second world war, nor the Vietnam War, have saved Democracy for the world,
on the contrary, we have seen that wars breed Communism and dictatorships.