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...February 1945, War Correspondent William Gray reported for TIME the destructive battle in which MacArthur's troops freed Manila from the Japanese. Last week Gray, now an editor of LIFE, cabled from Manila this report on the Philippines five years after liberation...
...Military communications are no longer safe. At Clark Air Force Base, only 50 miles north of Manila, curfew now comes an hour before dark-after that, no one is allowed to enter or leave. A dozen Clark Base airmen and civilian employees have been killed, presumably by Huks...
...State Department, the U.S. paid scant attention to the Indo-Chinese struggle. It seemed largely a local affair between the French and their subjects. Since the dust has settled in China, Asia's Communism is thrusting southward. Indo-China stands first on the path to Singapore, Manila and the Indies...
Maximum Effort. In Manila, P.I., Columnist Ernesto del Rosario of the Chronicle suggested that the new republic's austerity program might be more successful if government officials would: 1) limit the cost of their wives' party dresses to $500 or less each, and 2) not make the state support the "other woman...
...Peril. Many Filipinos felt sure that Father Hogan's action was not an individual protest; they thought that the P.A.L. dispute might grow into a major rift between the church and the Philippine government. Manila remembered an eloquent address last fall to Catholic lay leaders in which Apostolic Delegate Vagnozzi had exhorted "the wealthy people [and] businessmen...