Word: filipino
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he died (of tuberculosis) at Saranac Lake, N.Y., in August 1944, he was to U.S. eyes the First Filipino in more senses than one. Among his countrymen he had critics who deplored his dictatorial ways, but to thousands of other Filipinos he ranked with the great patriots. The Good Fight is Quezon's autobiography. Earnest, mild in its verdicts, limited in range but now & then surprisingly revealing, it is his profession of faith in the U.S., his story of how a boy from the out-of-the-way Luzon barrio of Baler, Tayabas Province, rose in the world...
...Quezon arrived in Washington as Resident Commissioner to the U.S. from the Filipino people. In 1942, as President of the Commonwealth, he arrived there again, head of a government in exile 9,000 miles from home. The first news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had reached him at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital. While he was still at breakfast, Jap planes were overhead. For two months, from crowded quarters in one of Corregidor's bombproof tunnels, Quezon followed the slow squeeze of Mac-Arthur's army down the rugged peninsula of Bataan...
...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 he might thus "solidify the opposition of the Filipinos" against the invading Japanese. Finally, to halt the "possibly useless sacrifice" of Filipino life and property, he proposed in February 1942, that both U.S. and Jap forces be withdrawn and the Philippines "neutralized" and declared wholly independent...
Concerning post-election outbreaks in Central Luzon between Filipino police and the Communist Hukbalahaps, who supported his recent opponent, Sergio Osmeña, Salesman Roxas offered a cautious explanation...
...Filipinos had come to know Manuel Roxas well. He had once been a general with MacArthur, and was liked by the U.S. military. He was a member of Jose Laurel's puppet government during the Japanese occupation, but resisted all efforts of the Japs to take him to Tokyo. A lawyer, Roman Catholic, and President of the Senate, he is a magnetic, articulate orator, a serious student of economics. He had the support of most Filipino conservatives...