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/<=WASHINGTON, D® €. —
jHenry Wallace, ‘the “lanky,
\ tousle-haired ex- Vice-Presi
dent of the United States, and
|éhampion of the program for
'60,000,0000 full-time jobs in
‘the postwar period, has been
‘confirmed as Secretary of
| Commerce.

His confirmation which follow-
ed a month-long fight by Repub-
licans and reactionary Democrat
éeabal to block the appointment,
means that President Roosevelt

fight to give the United States
an economic Bill of Rights.

‘The battle to defeat Wallace
was frustrated by a coalition of
progressive - minded Senators,
anion leaders, and business men
whe are backing the Roosevelt
policy of implementing the de-
cisions formulated at the Tehe-
ran and Yalta Conferences.
Wallace’s position with re-
gard to his appointment was
| made clear.at a Senate hearing
) thursday, Feb. 25, when he told
(a Gommitteé investigatins his
) qualifications that the had “great
faith in the American people.
Pind their way of life” and that
)ae wanted to-do all he could to

make the American economy
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| Objective of hostile parties
was to sabotaze the ex-Vice-

President and former Secretary
fof Agriculture by deriding him
)2s a visionary, inexperienced
= olitician.

> Wallace exposed these tactics
Poy citing his career. He directed
"me of the most sweeping agri-
Pultural reforms in the history
Hf the United States: his re-
‘aarkable abilities as an adminis-
-fator have earned him innum-
» cable testimonials.

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has won the first step in his

HENRY WALLACE
U.S. Seeretary of Commerce

BOLD CONCEPTION

The real issue in the United
States, he declares, is whether
America “would approach the
problems of peace with the same
boldness of conception, the same
courage and determination as we
have approached the problems of
war.”

Wallace succeeds Jesse Jones,
whose enmity to the new Secre-
tary provoked him into making:
a ferccious vocal assault on the
latter, with Jones claiming that
only he himself was capable of
handling the job.

But the faith of the American
people m the program envisioned
by Roosevelt and Wallace proved
too powerful a factor for the
minority backward looking op-
pesition Qn March i, the ap-
pointment of Henry Wallace,
long-time champion for the “com-

mon man” was confirmed by a

independence. =

Ps. Features, March 17 — Page 15

Philippine Commonwealth —

wealth is already well on its

storing full’ powers and responsibilities to the
Starts the ball rolling, immediately after.the ¢
fulfilment of President Roosevelt’s pledge.

Im ceremonies in the historic
Malacanan Palace, where the
Commonwealth government was
again installed, President Os-
mena urged that the grant of
complete independence be grant-
ed on Aug. 13, 1945, the 47th
anniversary of the landing of
American forces in the Philip-
pines in the war with Spain.
Whether or not full independ-
ence becomes a reality on that
day, the fact remains that the
first historic cycle in Filipino-
American relations has been
completed. The Philippines are
now entering upon their era of

In reestablishing the Common-
wealth Government, President
Osmena has shown a certain dis-
position to bring into the fov-
ernment the leaders of the anti-
Japanese guerilla and liberation
movement. He has brought into
his cabinet as the ranking mem-
ber Tomas Confesor, a prominent
guerilla leader, the governor of
Panay. He has, been given the
post of Secretary of the Interior
and Director of the Reorganiza-
tion of Manila. Confesor has al-
Ways been-considered a leader
of the progressive wing of the’
Nationalist Party and an op-
ponent of the pro-Japanese éle-
ments in that Party.

Equally significant is the ap-
pointment of Col. Ruperto Kan-
gleon, the euerilla leader in
Leyte, as acting governor of that

vote of 52 to 36 province. In announcing these
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Urges Complete Independence

The first: colonial country to be liberate g

ast, the Philippine Common-

way to independence. The action of Gen. MacArthur in re-

government

of President Sergio Osmena

omplete liberation of Manila, towards the

appointments, the President
urged united popular support
for his government to achieve
the tasks of rehabilitation and
of internal law and order, the
condition for the grant of full
independence. He warned again-
st plunging into the “abyss of
disunion.”
MORE PURGES NEEDED
Much still remains to be done
to assure the removal from of-
fice and punishment of the pro-
Japanese elements, while grant-
ing full recognition to all forces
which carried on the strugele
against the Japanese occupation.
There still seems to be much un-
clarity as to the policy of the
Osmena government on these
questions, especially towards the
former Nationalist Party leaders
Who worked with the Japanese.
Tt is unlikely that the Japanese
liberation movement ‘will be sat-
isfied unless appropriate action
1S taken against them, as well
8S against the FPalangists of the

Spanish community who collab-
orated.

Nor is the government’s at-
titude yet clear on the policy: to
be adopted towards the mass
liberation forces on Luzon and
elsewhere who are led by a uni-
ted front which ineludes the
Gommunist, Socialist and trade
union leaders. This question is

as important in the Philippines _

as in Europe, especially because
of its bearing upon the crisis in
China, and upon the vital prob-
lem of eliminating the Japanese
military-fascist influences.

Despite the fact that such prob-

tems are still to be solved, the
Significance of the Philippines
liberation cannot be underesti-
mated with respect to the main
problems of the Far East. The
war in the Pacific inevitably en-

ters the colonial phase, and what

has already been accomplished
in the Philippines cannot help

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