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...timely book: Why England Slept (because she refused to sacrifice butter for guns, to prevent a war she never really believed would come). After a war in which his older brother and brother-in-law had been killed, in which he himself had been wounded when a Jap destroyer cut his boat in half, Jack Kennedy was even more convinced that U.S. security and world peace depended on U.S. vigilance...
...northwest. On its soggy banks last week coolies toiled with hand and basket, shovel and wheelbarrow, pitting their sweat-shiny muscles against the river. Near Kaifeng dikes were rising to replace those destroyed in 1938 by the Chinese when they scorched the earth in the path of the Jap invaders. Before the dikes were opened the river had flowed northeastward into the Pohai Gulf. Afterward, it turned southeastward and ran into the Yellow Sea. If the river could be diverted to its former bed, 1,500,000 acres of arable land would grow the grain and cotton that China needs...
...Filipino people. In 1942, as President of the Commonwealth, he arrived there again, head of a government in exile 9,000 miles from home. The first news of the attack on Pearl Harbor had reached him at Baguio, the Philippine summer capital. While he was still at breakfast, Jap planes were overhead. For two months, from crowded quarters in one of Corregidor's bombproof tunnels, Quezon followed the slow squeeze of Mac-Arthur's army down the rugged peninsula of Bataan...
...protests, out of disloyalty but because, in a way he never makes clear, he thought he might thus "solidify the opposition of the Filipinos" against the invading Japanese. Finally, to halt the "possibly useless sacrifice" of Filipino life and property, he proposed in February 1942, that both U.S. and Jap forces be withdrawn and the Philippines "neutralized" and declared wholly independent...
Delayed Threat. Quezon's The Good Fight was ready to be published in October 1944-but was delayed because of the protests of Sergio Osmeña, who became President on Quezon's death. Osmeña protested that its publication might "assist" the Jap war effort or cause "unrest" among the Filipinos. Some of Quezon's friends have seen political motives in this attitude, noting that while The Good Fight speaks in generally friendly terms of Osmeña, it gives higher praise to Manuel Roxas, Osmeña's victorious rival...