U.S. AID FOR ASIA AND PACIFIC
MOVE URGED TO COMBAT COMMUNISM NEW YORK, April 17. Brigadier-General Carlos Rornulo, leader of the Philippine United Nations delegation, to-day called on the United States to follow up the North Atlantic Treaty with measures to improve the economic development of the nations of the Pacific and Asia. General Rornulo said in an interview that under present conditions no military alliance was needed for the Pacific- and Asia, but there was a pressing need for a fight against Communism by raising the living standards of hundreds of millions of Asiatic peoples. Ho added ilia the Far Eastern countries would derive tremendous encouragement if a United States official of the standing of Mr Paul Hoffman visited Far Eastern" Pacific capitals and offer United . States assistance in preparing their development programmes.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 69, Issue 160, 19 April 1949, Page 3
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