Editorial Note
The Chargé in the Philippines reported in the evening of October 27 that he received a telephone call from the Presidential Executive Secretary Evangelista that the latter had had a message from President Quirino from Baguio. The President had been interviewed by newspapermen in which he had told them that he had been informed that the Philippine Scouts might soon be disbanded. If this were true, President Quirino hoped that the 29,000 men could be gradually absorbed into the armed forces, even if at first there might not be sufficient weapons and equipment for them. Perhaps the United States would find it convenient to declare as surplus the equipment and weapons of the Philippine Scouts, which would let them be absorbed by the Philippine Government without much expense. Their basic pay was now the same as the regular pay of the Philippine Army personnel, although the Scouts did enjoy better allowances.