program of the United States

Roxas declared his unequivocal subordination to the US when he stressed that he was committed to “subscribe irretrievably” to US foreign policy and to the “cause and international program of the United States of America.” He also underscored the need to have the “closest cooperation with the United States in all matters concerning our common defense and security.” Thus, his government signed the Military Bases Agreement (MBA) with the US in 1947 In his book, The United States and the Philippines: A Study of Neocolonialism published in 1986, American scholar, Stephen R. Shalom, argued that Roxas Administration was the beginning of US neocolonialism in the Philippines สล็อต