The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-11

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combined American and Filipino
forces. full restoration OF eOnstitl-
tional processes, and the rebirth of
the Philippine Commonwealth as
an independent entity, originally
set for July 4. 1916, is the subject
which is under intense discussion
II Filipino leaders at present.
There is a movement afoot to urge
the Liberation OF the Philippines on
August 10 OF this year. on the fifty
third anniversary OF the day that
Gen. Arthur Macarthur led the
United States forces into the
Islands and occupied them.
Notwithstanding a recent and
perpleXing statement by Paul V.
McNutt, former high commissioner.
Filipinos are still hopeful for the
midsummer independence celebra-
ton one year ahead of schedule.
McNutt prophecied that IF Filipi-
nos defer the question OF independ-
ence, they are NOR" likely to get
sympathetic reaction from Con-
gress on rehabilitation measures.
| This statement caused the FilipinUs
and their American friends 10
weigh the current UNRRA relief
| plans, which they hold inadequate.
as method for exerting political
pressure. At the present moment
the War Department controls food
and clothing issue in the Philip
pines, but materials voluntarily col
lected in the United States by civil
liam relief organizations are form
ing stock piles of considerable pro
portions.
on the credit side of the L. S.
| Philippines business ledger is the
recent reopenlng OF our consulate
general headed by State Depart
ment veteran, Paul Steintorf who
/ has reached his former Manila
post with four experienced Far
Eastern consular officers Quarters
are in the offices OF the former Nazi
consulate general In the months
| preceding liberation. a collabora-
ZIONIST war criminal, Benigno Aqui-
| no. speaker of the national assemb-
| ly, used the offices as residence.
| The L. S. consulate. opened by
Steintorf in a fine new building
in the fall OF 1871, was destroyed by
the APPS.
knew Seintorf in Japan from
/ 1927. He was trade commissioner
when Herbert Hoover's Commerce
! Department controlled that field.
When the syitem was altered Stein
tori became assistant commercial
attache. In late Feb. 1886, Stein
tori and his wife. living in the L. S.
embassy compound in Tokyo. pro-
Tided refuge for this writer and
his wife during military uprising
We were forced TO vacate our
home. My name was on a list OF
about 700 persons to be killed by
military gangsters OF the Blood
Brotherhood Band and the Dai
Nippon Sekiseikai of Col. Kin
CORA Hashimoto, notorious lingo
who engineered the sinking OF the
L. s. gunboat Panay at Marking.
Steintorf has been through revo.
buttons, earthquakes. war and in
ternment. When the Japs took
Manila they sent an Official to say
you are special prisoners. He
then was ranking Y. S. officer The
high commissioner. Frances b.
Sayre, had departed. Steintorf
looked after his own staff and %
transient consular men and their
families who arrived the Saturday
before war was declared. He ar
ranged for them to be quartered
from Jan. 2. 1912. to Sept &c, 1913,
in a private home, until repatria.
ton. Phone were cut. He lost
so pounds while a prisoner as
much weight as he was allowed
for baggage on his recent flight
from San Francisco to Manila
The Filipino stan fled to the
mountains. Recently messages from
them read Happy welcome Await
ing your. return Today they're
back at work.
Thousands of Americans releas-
ed from Santo Thomas and Los
Banos internment centers require
consular assistance in money mat
ters, transportation arrangements.
passports, having commercial pa
] peers HOldIlLtu, wal udHldEt NldillS
established, premiums certified on
war risk insurance and a bakers
dozen OF procedures outside War
Department scope.
The consular stan too realizes
the importance OF re-establishing
two way trade and commercial
relations.
Each man on Steintorfs Manila
STAFF is well qualified.
w. Garland Richardson, foreign
trade specialist. served at Nagoya
and Tokyo and was seized at Dair-
en-. Manchuria, Dec. I, l94l.
L. Alexis Johnson arrived in
Japan in 1885 as a language stu