Government, including the White Wouse, Congress and the State Department were acquainted with Mr. MeNutt's speech before it was delivered and such unofficial approval of Mr. MeNutt's views was regarded here a3 reflecting a new attitude toward the Philippines on the part of the Administration, 'Mfr. MeNutt told' an estimated 10,- Goood0 "listeners onthe National oadeasting System that peace in the Paeifle depended on harmonizing "the salvation of the-Philippines and the larger interests of America."
He said the United States should reserve to itself in the Philippines only Jurisdiction over foreign affairs, tariffs, immigration, currency and public debt problems "The United States," he said, "should feo) free in case of a crisis to help preserve the democratic basis of the Philippine Government."
War Follows Evacuation Referring to the military problem the Philippines, Mr, MeNutt said:
venture to predict that if our fi comes down, the Philippines will the bloody ground of a, war within war for a generatk Sketching the background of the Philippine independence movement, 'Mx, MeNutt pointed out that new problems had' arisen" since the pa Sage of the Philippine Independence "Treaties concerning the Orient have been violated," he recalld, "the Open Door Policy has been more than' seriously challenged and. our polley of freedom of the seas and freedom of the air 1s in balance Mr. MeNutt said many Filipinos had come to realize that independvereignties, said Filipino might merely mean" trading
ming to realize small independent nation would not be able to enforce American 1aw excluding Asiatic immigration United Press,
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