At Manila last week a skeptical people looked independence in the face as their Commonwealth's new unicameral National Assembly met for the first time. The visible features of their new liberty in-eluded: 1) a school system almost broken down by lack of funds; 2) a sickly economic situation due to get worse as Philippine markets are lost behind the rising U. S. tariff wall; 3) the necessity to provide for self-defense, by universal military service, a trained reserve of 400,000 men; 4) a virtually empty treasury. Lest the National Assembly's opening be...
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