THE CHINA MAIL, AUGUST 14,
PHILIPPINE COMMISSION PASSING THROUGH H.K. IN PRESIDENT HOOVER
The Commission which is to study the problems associated with the grant of independence to the Philippine Islands arrived in the President Hoover last night.
The Commission is headed by Mr. John Van A. MacMurray, veteran Far Eastern diplomat and present American Ambassador to Turkey.
The American committee is push- ing forward rapidly with plans for a thorough investigation of possible changes in the Tydings-McDuffie In- dependence Act. Hearings were held in San Francisco more or less as a perfunctory gesture before the committee.sailed.
LONDON WANTS MORE WOMEN IN
POLICE FORCE
More women police are wanted in Major investigations will take London place in the Philippines themselves, Advertisements to this effect in co-operation with Filipino mem-have led to questions being asked. bers of the committee, and a report Are the "women in blue" depleting will be presented sometime around the ranks by getting married? the end of the year.
Long Experience
Mr. MacMurray had long exper ience in the Orient, was chief of the division of Far Eastern affairs and an Assistant Secretary of State He had an important part in the Wash- ington Naval Conference and in various Chinese negotiations.
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The answer is "No." During the past two years, only one woman po- she makes only the third since the liceman has left to be married, and MORROW in service was instituted.
The fact of the matter is that the women are proving themselves their work so interesting that they peculiarly useful and are finding
are reluctant to give it up even for A complicated task faces the joint the making of a home of their own. committee, American members of Their numbers are actually to be which are drawn from the State De-increased.
partment, the Department of Com- The London woman “bobby”, has merce, the War Department and the many duties to perform which the Tariff Commission. It must deter-ordinary public does not see Be-. mine what states is best adapted to sides the usual patrol of the streets further economic independence for land open spaces, and the work per- the Philippines, with the tacit as-formed at the police station, she sumption that some change from may be called upon to undertake the export taxes scheduled to go any duty from that of travelling to into effect in 1940 is likely. But the a distant city to bring back a wo- economic situation is recogised to man suspect to that of investigating | be partly dependent on the political in the guise of a smart society wo- status of the islands, and there is a man the questionable activities of movement led by President Quezon a night club.
to secure immediate and complete For such divers requirements she independence in a year or two. Ais-expected to attain a high-stand- substantial group in the American fard of adaptability. Women of the Congress supports this drive. Metropolitan Force, it is officially
Relations Difficult
stated, must be exceptionally alert, American-Philippine relations are and must possess those "graces of getting no better, it would seem at character" which are expressed in long-range view, from the series of kindliness, tolerance, and
a real incidents which have ensued for sense of humor. Moreover, they whatever came ever since Mr. Paul must be able, as occasion demands, V. McNutt, former Governor of In- to look "right either in the most diana, arrived in Manila as High luxurious evening apparel or in Commissioner.
garments of the slums. The recent controversy, in Mamila at present Twenty-six of these London's policewomen number 80 showed Commissioner McNutt seek have been recruited to the force ing to explain through conferences since September, 1936. A further with newspapers, statements he 50 are now to don the "blue," bring- made on July 4 which aroused Fibing the number up to 130. pino sensibilities and were taken to
be derogatory to their capacity for cepted the appointment from Presi self-governm However, it was dent Roosevelt his term of
understood when Mr. McNutt ac- would be brief.
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