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...witness who appeared before the House committee was Nathan Levine, a New York attorney and a nephew of Mrs. Chambers, who said he had been the innocent custodian of the papers for the past ten years. In 1938, he said, Chambers had given him a large manila envelope to keep, instructing him to open it if anything happened to Chambers and his wife. "You are a lawyer, and will know what to do," Chambers had said...
...Douglas MacArthur's alert military ear, the Communist sweep through China carried an ominous and familiar rumble. Only seven years ago, in Manila, he had seen the gathering storm of Japanese conquest. He appealed for reinforcements which could not be supplied, hopelessly watched the envelopment of the Philippines. Could Japan become a latter-day Bataan...
...couldn't wait to get out of town. I returned to my hotel and, inasmuch as it was my birthday, ate some birthday cake. The (next morning, with my three colleagues, I boarded the Buenos Aires plane and sat there, feeling most uncomfortable, with a big, fat manila envelope full of opposition documents among my possessions. Neither the police nor the customs officials molested me, however, and when the big seaplane took off from the Parana river it was too late for anyone to do anything about...
President Elpido Quirino had $2,000,000 to use for the social welfare of the pesty Hukbalahaps if they behaved themselves. Instead the Huks broke out in new rebellion against the government and clashed with the army at several points north of Manila...
Meanwhile, on Camiguin Island in the Mindanao Sea, Hibok-Hibok volcano erupted last week for the first time since April 30, 1871. Thousands of refugees fled the molten blanket of lava, the smothering volcanic ash and dust. In Manila, a typhoon roared out of the Pacific and lashed the city with torrential rains, paralyzing daily life and restricting traffic in half the capital to bamboo rafts...