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...about the Philippines and never has, from the very beginning." She kids the pious rationalizations of McKinley, the imperialistic fanfare of Senator Beveridge (Almighty God had "marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long-she has little respect. And toward American colonists she is passionately irreverent...
Rufo Romero, 35, is the illegitimate son of a poor Filipino mother. He grew up to be a brilliant student at the University of the Philippines. Then he went to West Point, where he had the stand of 17th in the class of 1931. After graduation he married a 17-year-old girl from The Bronx, was stationed for further training at Fort Belvoir, Va. While there, hot-tempered Romero was often accused by brother officers of an inferiority complex, possibly due to his lowly background. He arranged parties for the late Resident Commissioner of the Philippines Pedro Guevera...
...wish to tell you that I have not yet met the Filipino who has the exaggerated patriotism of desiring a separation now. It will be finding ruby in the swamp if you can find 5 out of every 100 Filipinos who favor independence. And if 5% of a nation is not in favor of independence I think that independence should better be kept somewhere else where it would not kick that nation to extinction...
Behind all Mr. Quezon's dance steps was the threat of Japan, crouching 1,300 nautical miles north, her horn-rimmed eyes on British and Dutch Borneo and Australia, one nostril delicately cocked at the Philippines. A Japanese once remarked to a Filipino politician in Manila: "If we invade you it will only be to teach you that you are not occidentals." As Mr. Quezon well knows, Japan would not even have to make a military invasion. Quezon's islands would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence...
...little, as usual. As on other cruises, a Navy plane dropped from the skies, came alongside the Potomac, left the official mail and the Sunday papers. There were eels for dinner, eels that the President had caught and which make good eating when prepared by the Potomac's Filipino cook...