Skip to main content Accessibility help
×
Hostname: page-component-77c89778f8-vpsfw Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-07-16T20:50:13.510Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

10 - The Foreign Policy Critic and Spokesman

from III - Going In, then Out of the Political Jungle: Padre Burgos to Arlegui

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2018

Get access

Summary

Outside his work in the Senate, Guerrero closely monitored world events, a habit which eventualy earned him a reputation as a wellknown political analyst who aired his views on current international affairs, particularly the emergence of the Cold War. Since the Philippines was closely allied with the United States, the Cold War demanded special attention from Filipino policymakers and analysts. Before the Malolos Rotary Club in late July 1950, he disclosed how Russia would engage in “little wars” to further its world domination in places like Indochina, Greece and Iraq by using its allies, thus weakening the United States. Russia, he said, was not ready to start a war against the United States but in due time, Russia could challenge the United States with the aid of new weapons of war. In the case of an atomic war, however, the United States, he believed, had the advantage over Russia since the former stockpiled atomic bombs. Guerrero stressed the importance of the United Nations in the maintenance of world peace.

At the Manila Overseas Press Club, he graced the inaugural meeting of the Manila Round Table, a group interested in international and national issues, discussing American policy in the advent of communism in Asia. At the Y's Men's Club, on its special United Nations Week programme, he spoke about a new United Nations that had emerged from the old one established in San Francisco since the outbreak of the Cold War, before flying to Dublin, Ireland to fulfil his function as member and secretary of the Philippine delegation to the International Parliamentary Conference. Special to the Philippines Herald, he wrote his sharp impressions of Europe in a series of articles at a time when Europe was slowly taking steps towards a European Community.

The following year, in a regular weekly luncheon meeting of the Manila Rotary at the Manila Hotel, speaking before diplomatic and consular representatives of Southeast Asian countries, he characterized Asian nationalism as anti-Western and anti-capitalist in the wake of India's rejection of the San Francisco peace treaty and Iran's agitation for the nationalization of its oil industry.

Type
Chapter
Information
The Diplomat-Scholar
A Biography of Leon Ma. Guerrero
, pp. 119 - 127
Publisher: ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute
Print publication year: 2017

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure coreplatform@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×