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...stake is more than money: the obligations of the U. S. to its Filipino dependents, its dedication to an independent China, its selfish interest in keeping the Axis out of the Pacific...
...Kenneth Overlin, Washington ex-gob: the New York State version of the world's middleweight title, by a 15-round decision over "bolo-punching" Ceferino Garcia, Los Angeles Filipino; in Manhattan...
...dirty Pasig River flowed under part of the Malacañan Palace (an overgrown Filipino stilt-house) in the Philippines. From the porch the Taft boys went swimming, and there Bob was stung by a jellyfish...
...necessary. After two years as High Commissioner to the Philippines, Paul Vories McNutt returned to the U. S. as a burning apostle of this view. The present High Commissioner, Francis Bowes Sayre, is a rabid convert to it. And it is a good bet that some time soon Filipino President Manuel L. Quezon will publicly beg the U. S. to postpone Philippine independence beyond 1946 and keep Japan...
...Real Glory (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) is the Philippine Birth of a Nation. It begins when the U. S. Army withdraws from Mindanao, leaving a handful of officers to train the Filipinos to defend themselves against the aggressive Moros-as onetime U. S. Chief of Staff Douglas MacArthur is now training them to defend themselves against the Japanese. "We who are about to die salute you," quotes the gloomy padre of Fort Mysang as the soldiers leave. This pessimistic view seems justified until Dr. Canavan (Gary Cooper), an Army surgeon with a Freudian attitude towards fear, gets to work...