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...Yale-educated José P. Laurel, the islands' puppet President under the Japanese. "If collaboration means helping your people to live and survive," said Laurel on the stump, "I would do it over again." Through the campaign Laurel worked desperately to rid himself of a reputation for being anti-American; he never quite shook it off. He also made much of his personal honesty, which Filipinos accept. But between the Quirino and Laurel machines, Filipinos had a Hobson's choice. No one doubts that Laurel's followers would be as corrupt as Quirino's if their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: The Lonely Election | 11/21/1949 | See Source »

While loudspeakers blared Strauss waltzes, alternating with the Internationale, comrades milled among the booths, past anti-American posters, right into the arms of 3,000 Communist girls with red flowers in their hair, who insistently sold lapel badges marked "Unita." No merrymaker could really begin to enjoy himself in peace until he had a badge in his buttonhole and a copy of Unita protruding from his pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Have a Unifa | 10/10/1949 | See Source »

...section of the press in both countries chose to fasten on the only exception, Bob Falkenburg. They magnified the regrettable incident in which he was booed by a small section of the crowd and printed his statement that the Wimbledon crowd is anti-American. It is enough to make a confirmed fan gnaw the net. The Wimbledon crowd is not anti-anybody. They queue for hours to study tennis and personalities, in that order. And they ask not if you won or lost, but how you played the game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 1, 1949 | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...statement to the CRIMSON, Shapley claimed that peace was the sole purpose of the conference and that it "is not in any sense anti-American...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally No Red Front, Shapley States | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

...Conference is not in any sense anti-American. It has been sponsored by more than 500 scientists, college presidents, artists, writers, and professional men and women. Naturally it has been opposed and obstructed by those who profit from war and war preparations, and by those who have succumbed to the hates that have prevailed since the end of the second world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rally No Red Front, Shapley States | 3/24/1949 | See Source »

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