Word: filipinos
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...extreme example was the deed of petite, Manila-bred Filipino Nurse Rebecca Salvación, who had to take cover in a shallow trench when her station was bombed. Other nurses were evacuated in ambulances. Somehow Nurse Salvación was left behind. So, too, was a U.S. Marine, wounded in the throat by a bomb fragment and calling for help from a nearby trench. Rebecca Salvación crawled from her trench, made it to a building, summoned an Army doctor, Captain Benjamin Kysor of Oswego, N.Y., to help...
...Philippine Resident Commissioner, admitted that he was perplexed at the reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested in 44 years...
...Filipino is a stubborn gambler even for the Orient, an unbusinesslike dweller in the Far East of shrewd traders. His wife handles the money of the household, because otherwise he gives it away, loses it, bets it, or spends it. According to ancient tradition he takes in his kinspeople when they are in trouble, unworriedly moves in on them when in trouble himself. Americans think he is indolent, but his passivity "is a combination of natural dignity and a protest against unnecessary haste...
...clear whether the Japanese will set up opium dens to debauch the Filipinos, as they have the Chinese, or what oppressive measures they may put upon the people. Already in provinces of Luzon (but not in primitive Bataan, which the U.S. still held) the Japanese had set up their own governments. Japanese residents, once outwardly peaceful shopkeepers and fishermen, blossomed out into uniforms and became provincial governors. Filipino quislings and renegade whites joined with them. The Jap's Special Service Station had also begun the looting of the islands by the familiar Nazi methods, including the use of cleverly...
...Japanese also announced that they had appointed as mayor of captive Manila a Filipino big shot: swart, well-educated, luxury-loving Jorge Vargas, long one of President Quezon's right-hand men. Whether this was the first step in the establishment of a Philippine equivalent of a Pétain Government, it was too early to say. For it remains to be seen whether after 44 years of American government Filipino civilians will feel as capable of maintaining the fight for their freedom as Filipinos have so far proved in the army of General MacArthur...