Report of meetings : May 19, 1955
Description: page 5 - 6 In: Rotary Club of Manila. The Rotary Balita No. 749 to 774Summary: ON BANDUNG. Sen. Emmanuel Pelaez, gave his impressions of the Bandung conference before the Rotarians. Others, left to right: Rotary President Gene Puyat, Dr. Albino Z. SyCip who received the Rotary donation to Liberty Wells, and Lee Tam, visiting Rotary president. Senator Emmanuel Pelaez focused the spotlight on the role played by the Philippines in the historic Afro-Asian conference in Bandung recently. Among other things, he said, the Philippines was able to collaborate successfully with other free nations in preventing the communists from making the conference a mere sounding board for their ideas. This singular accomplishment, the senator pointed out, enabled the participating nations to express their own convictions in the conference without being hampered or being drowned out by the Red line. The defense arrangements of the Philippines with the United States and other SEATO nations was "justified" and all impressions about her being a mere puppet of the U.S. and an echo of American policy in the Far East were thus erased, Pelaez said. With the other free nations the following were also accomplished: 1.) The Philippines and other free nations were able to assert their ideals of freedom and democracy based on morality and ethics; 2.) They were able to expose communism and its present-day methods; 3.) They made sure that the conference would express, as it did, strong support of the United Nations and all that it stood for; and 4.) Most important of all, they were able to prove that Asia and Africa are neither pro-communist nor neutralist, but a part of the free world. Pelaez said that the Afrasian conference brought an end to the era of subjection of Asia and Africa, for they were able to prove that they could not be ignored and the problems of the world could not be solved without taking these two regions into account. The most dramatic impact of the Afrasian conference, according to Pelaez, is the way it showed how even the smallest nation can do and achieve something through the exertion of moral force.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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The Rotary Balita no. 772 (May 26, 1955).
ON BANDUNG. Sen. Emmanuel Pelaez, gave his impressions of the Bandung conference before the Rotarians. Others, left to right: Rotary President Gene Puyat, Dr. Albino Z. SyCip who received the Rotary donation to Liberty Wells, and Lee Tam, visiting Rotary president. Senator Emmanuel Pelaez focused the spotlight on the role played by the Philippines in the historic Afro-Asian conference in Bandung recently. Among other things, he said, the Philippines was able to collaborate successfully with other free nations in preventing the communists from making the conference a mere sounding board for their ideas. This singular accomplishment, the senator pointed out, enabled the participating nations to express their own convictions in the conference without being hampered or being drowned out by the Red line. The defense arrangements of the Philippines with the United States and other SEATO nations was "justified" and all impressions about her being a mere puppet of the U.S. and an echo of American policy in the Far East were thus erased, Pelaez said. With the other free nations the following were also accomplished: 1.) The Philippines and other free nations were able to assert their ideals of freedom and democracy based on morality and ethics; 2.) They were able to expose communism and its present-day methods; 3.) They made sure that the conference would express, as it did, strong support of the United Nations and all that it stood for; and 4.) Most important of all, they were able to prove that Asia and Africa are neither pro-communist nor neutralist, but a part of the free world. Pelaez said that the Afrasian conference brought an end to the era of subjection of Asia and Africa, for they were able to prove that they could not be ignored and the problems of the world could not be solved without taking these two regions into account. The most dramatic impact of the Afrasian conference, according to Pelaez, is the way it showed how even the smallest nation can do and achieve something through the exertion of moral force.
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