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Last week, planes loaded with war brides arrived at Honolulu's airport on an average of every two hours, day & night. There were Chinese, Japanese and Filipino girls (almost all of whom were married to G.I.s of Oriental parentage), plus Eurasians, Australians and White Russians...
...Haitian Delegate Antonio Vieux spoke heatedly against partition; two days later he announced shamefacedly that his government had ordered him to switch to yes. Filipino Delegate General Carlos Romulo, on Wednesday, orated against partition and sailed away on the Queen Mary. Saturday a new Filipino delegate flew in from Washington, voted yes. Liberia, which voted no in committee, said yes in the final roll call. In the final days Arab and Jewish hopes alternately soared and plummeted...
...Philippines last week ran another tonsorial tale: to see who was king of the newly born babies, a bird and a snake had fought. The bird won, but the snake threatened to kill all babies with hair on their heads. The story traveled fast. In five towns Filipino mothers had their children's heads shaved. The barbers had never done such business...
Married. Arthur William Wermuth, 32, rough, tough, erstwhile "One-Man Army of Bataan"; and Patricia Steele, 23, Denver parachutist; he for the second time (not including a Filipino nurse whose claim that they were married in 1941 he has persistently denied), she for the first; in Wheatland...
...Filipino, who yields to no man in his love of freedom, last week yielded to the U.S. two bits of sovereignty. For the Filipino also loves freedom from want and freedom from fear...