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...puppet constitution-an act that has since thrown suspicion of collaboration upon him. What critics did not know was that the constitution read almost word for word like the U.S. Constitution, and that its jumpy, slippery author was the coordinator and spark of the all-important U.S. espionage in Manila...
...returning Americans approached Manila, Roxas and his family were taken to Baguio under guard. In April, with his family and four members of the puppet cabinet, Roxas hiked three days through the hills to the U.S. lines...
Fruits of Independence. Today, Roxas rises at 6:30 a.m., works seven days a week in Manila's sprawling stucco Malacañan Palace, smokes up to five packs of cigarets (Camels, Kools) a day, sees up to 500 people a week and takes books to bed with him. He is thin, tense, courteous, worldlywise. Eight weeks ago he made a flying trip to the U.S., where he was greeted by Daughter Maria Rosario, a student at Vassar, made an excellent impression in Washington as an energetic, businesslike administrator who realizes that the Philippines' best interests...
...heart, mind and magic, no man could hope to put the Philippines together again. There is no national economy, no export trade. Fifty percent of the carabaos, on which farming depends, have been killed by bombs and bullets or slaughtered for food during the war. Next to Warsaw, Manila is the world's most devastated city...
...Mindanao, the unmanageable Moros ignore Manila, as usual. Without forceful persuasion, perhaps 80% of the population could never be made to dream of anything but siesta, fiesta and sunsets...