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...latter-day Magellan could still be "the first to burst into that silent sea." No atomic-age Hernando Cortés would pose as a god to a modern Montezuma. Geographically, the world had been pretty well raked over. The only sizable blanks remaining were near the Poles, and they were mostly wastes of ice & snow...
Civilization. In 1521, Magellan discovered the Philippines for Spain and the white man-and died there in a political gang fight on tiny Mactan. Spanish customs, as well as Spanish laws, were clamped on the bewildered tribesmen like plate mail. With civilization had come the teaching missionary priest, the gold, pearl and hemp trade, running wars between the Dutch and Spanish, the British and Spanish, and the inexorable organization and pacification of the innocent bystanders. By 1892, when the brilliant and visionary mestizo, Dr. José Rizal, began his ideological revolt against the friars and tottering Spain, Spain had given...
...most of the 424 years after Magellan called at Guam, the people of the Marianas had little but grief at the hands of their Spanish, German and Japanese masters. But U.S. suzerainty is something different. There was word last week that an election had been held on Saipan...
...Nashville bore shoreward. The first land sighted by General MacArthur was the islet of Suluan, the first seen by Magellan when he discovered the Philippines in 1521. The first landings, on Homonhon, where Magellan had made his first landing, and on nearby Dinagat (see below), were only the preliminaries in MacArthur's vast and meticulously planned schedule of operations. His first major goal was Leyte, in the heart of the islands, where devoted Visayan guerrillas had been heard calling by secret radio for help a year...
...week to Latin America ever since last year. Here too the roll of TIME'S subscribers is a most distinguished one-including the presidents of six of our sister republics and a long list of important English-reading people from the Rio Grande to the Strait of Magellan. For example, the Consul General of Peru looked through the names of our subscribers in his country and was "very much impressed with the high representation in cultural and intellectual circles as well as the large amount of big business concerns and banking institutions" appearing there...