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Many of them recalled when it had been the other way round. Joe had grub staked them, paid their debts, put them to bed when they could not get there themselves, jacked them up with advice, taught them pinochle and penguingue (a Filipino game played with eight decks of cards). A New Jersey baker with a suspicion of tuberculosis, Joe went to work at the new Denver Press Club a few hours after he hit town...
...Japanese are not quite so confident that the Filipinos are awaiting a savior. Said the broadcast: "The Filipinos are a very superficial people, thoroughly demoralized by the American example. Nevertheless the Filipinos have several characteristics in common with the Japanese. They are fairly pious. When they make money, they prepare magnificent, costly coffins for their parents, even while they are alive, thereby comforting their declining years. If we Japanese can develop Filipino filial piety in other directions, there is some hope that the Filipinos may become a decent people...
...Quezon brought his wife, two daughters and son, tall, mannerly Vice President Sergio Osmeña; Don Andrés Soriano, organizer of the Filipino guerrillas and now Quezon's Secretary of Finance, three physicians, a nurse, and a group of military aides and secretaries. The trip to the U.S., said Quezon, was made "on, under and over the sea." He landed at San Francisco from a grey Army transport. Riding to the swank Mark Hopkins Hotel in an Army car, Manuel Quezon heard newsboys shout news of the Battle of the Coral...
...rigid Filipino U.S. Army sergeant stood guard outside the hotel room. Manuel Quezon posed for photographers, told newsmen: "When war began I said the Philippines will stand by the United States until the bitter end. Thank God the fact proves I was right." He said little more. A hacking, tuberculous cough interrupted his every word. How did he feel about Bataan and Corregidor? Manuel Quezon leaned wearily back in a deep, red chair, closed his eyes and murmured huskily: "I am proud...
...incredible, bloody hours, American fighting men-marines, sailors, U.S. and Filipino soldiers-grappled for Corregidor. The island's death rattle could be heard far inland...