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...Army doctors discovered the organism of pneumonia (George Miller Sternberg, almost simultaneously with Pasteur in 1881), of tooth decay (Puerto Rican Major Fernando Emilio Rodriguez, 1921), trench fever, three types of dysentery...
...platform strode President General Manuel Avila Camacho, who called for full collaboration with the United Nations. Standing beside him last week for Mexico and all the world to see were six living past Presidents: Adolfo de la Huerta (1920); General Plutarco Elías Calles (1924-28); Emilio Fortes Gil (1928-30); Pascual Ortiz Rubio (1930-32); General Abelardo Rodriguez (1932-34); General Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40), who exiled Calles in 1936. Five of them posed for a historic picture (see cut). The crowd in the Plaza saw the neatest demonstration of unity in Mexico...
...size, in the long military experience of its leader and the great number of its troops, it dwarfs the forces of such historic guerrillas as the Tirolean patriot Andreas Hofer, the Philippines' Emilio Aguinaldo, and Mexico's Francisco "Pancho" ("I'll use the whole ocean to gargle") Villa...
...observers had feared (TIME, Jan. 12), 73-year-old Generalissimo Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy has indeed become "a sort of Philippine quisling." That was how Douglas MacArthur's defiant headquarters on Bataan Peninsula defined him. From Manila', one day last week, General Aguinaldo broadcast a demand that Douglas MacArthur surrender immediately. Said a War Department communique: "The appeal was ignored by General MacArthur...
...spite of U.S. fears that stiff, independent old General Emilio Aguinaldo (who led the Philippine Insurrection in 1899) might head a Vichyfied government, nothing had been heard of General Aguinaldo. A Jap-inspired rumor that Manuel Quezon's old friend and secretary, Jorge Vargas, had sold out to the invaders, in return for a job as mayor of Manila, was promptly squelched by Manuel Quezon himself. Said President Quezon: "I appointed [Vargas] Mayor of Greater Manila ... in line with MacArthur's plans ... to maintain order and prevent looting...