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Last week President Ramon Magsaysay reinstated Occupation Day under a new and happier name: Philippine-American Day. Among those conspicuously observing it together: Admiral Raymond Spruance, the U.S. Ambassador, and the aging rebel chieftain Aguinaldo, who gave U.S. forces such trouble half a century...
...code of the Point, the plebes could escape hazing if they won. Wood licked both his plebes. He graduated 13th in a class of 54, and was shipped off to the Philippines as a cavalry lieutenant in charge of 100 men and horses, to help clean up Aguinaldo's insurrectos...
...this took place because of an old Spanish custom brought up to date. For years, Venezuelan employers gave their workers a Christmas aguinaldo, an annual bonus, sometimes amounting to as much as two weeks' pay. In 1936, President Eleazar Lopez Contreras turned the aguinaldo principle into law. He decreed that employers must split 10% of their profits among their workers...
General Douglas MacArthur politely shook hands with old General Emilio Aguinaldo (76), who, for independence, fought MacArthur's father in 1899. Now Filipinos had their independence. Said a Filipino jeep driver: "It feels good." The Manila Bulletin greeted sovereignty with a reservation that older, larger nations might find appropriate: "It is for the Philippines, no less than every other country which wishes to preserve peace, to sacrifice a portion of sovereignty, that is to say, the privilege of doing as it pleases, in the common good...
Quezon's Problem. Forty years earlier, a young guerrilla under Aguinaldo, Quezon himself had surrendered on Bataan to U.S. forces. According to one of the most candid chapters in The Good Fight, this veteran of another Bataan defeat soon decided that the situation under MacArthur was hopeless. At one point he asked himself whether "any government has the right to demand loyalty from its citizens" if it could no longer protect them. At another he considered giving himself up to the Japanese-not, he protests, out of disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought...