Book Reviews : The Philippines and the United States: Problems of Partnership. By GEORGE E. TAYLOR. (New York and London: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964. Pp. x, 325. $6.95.)

• Date: 01 December 1964
• Published date: 01 December 1964
• Author: Douglas H. Mendel
• DOI: 10.1177/106591296401700467
• Subject Matter: Articles

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money that not only did the forestry and other services suffer but &dquo;the entire financial
structure of the province was jeopardized.&dquo;
Dr. Sugar also criticizes the government’s decision to lump together and &dquo;handle
in the same manner&dquo; the three sectors of transportation, fuels, and such basic raw
materials as ores and forests. Space does not permit even a summary of his evidence,
and his conclusions that, except for the Soviet Union, the most economically ad-
vanced countries are those in which light industries developed first. The Austria-
Hungarian government should have left the development of these industries to pri-
vate capital, it should have included industrialists in formulating plans and policies,
and adopted more effective methods of regulating the activities of foreign entre-
preneurs who suffered from a lack and not an excess of regulatory controls. The
government mistakenly excluded native capitalists from taking part in the develop-
ment program, &dquo;failed to present to the population the new professions and occupa-
tions in the most favorable light,&dquo; and by refusing to grant adequate wages, satis-
factory working conditions, accident and health insurance, and trade union recog-
nition, it created a labor opposition which helped to &dquo;damage&dquo; the development
program. The authorities did an excellent job in finding the various raw materials
but failed to utilize them fully, and while they did many good things -
they pro-
vided good networks of roads, a few railroads, and some utilities -
much remained
undone.
Perhaps the greatest cause of the limited success of the policy lay in the political
realm. Hungarian opposition prevented the development of railroads which would
have linked Bosnia-Hercegovina with Dalmatia and West Croatia, the Hungarian
landowners resisted necessary land reforms, and the authorities failed to take suffi-
ciently into account the growing nationalist sentiment in the province....