What Lies Ahead for the Philippines?
By Catherine Porter,
Office of War Information, formerly with Institute for Pacific Relations
Contents
Introduction
Why Weren’t
We More Interested?
What Is a Filipino?
- Where does he live?
- The good earth
When Did Philippine
History begin?
- Was Spanish rule good or bad?
- Were the Filipinos contented?
How Did America
Enter the Picture?
- The new American broom
- How were American politics involved?
What Was the Independence
Act?
- Who were the Philippine leaders?
- What’s in the Philippine constitution?
The Three R’s
Is It a Democratic
Government?
- Have the Filipinos met the test?
- Independence without security?
- Has the war changed our policy?
Should we act as
watchdog?
- Freedom to starve?
- Can the islands be economically free?
- Co-prosperity or co-poverty?
- What kind of postwar economy?
- How long will American aid be needed?
To the Discussion
Leader
For Further
Reading
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