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MacArthur complied. Brigadier General Courtney Whitney, onetime Manila lawyer, began informing the Council in the most specific detail of the U.S. democratization policies. (At one point he read the names of nearly 200 Japanese organizations, apologized for omitting the addresses.) In the deliberate fashion of a schoolmaster lecturing a group of dull pupils, he interspersed pointed remarks directed at the Russian. (On one occasion: "Is the Russian representative understanding all this?" On another: "Will you kindly interpret that to General Derevyanko?") At the noon recess a correspondent asked when Whitney would finish. He smiled and answered: "I may be through...
...Manila last week a Filipino could clip a perfecto on whose gaudy band was a picture of President Sergio Osmeña, and light it from a match pack carrying the picture of fiery Manuel Roxas y Acuña. Over Manila streets and provincial roads, campaign banners fluttered from bamboo arches. Poster-covered jeeps careened through the towns. The first contested presidential election in Philippine history was at hand (April...
Passage to the Orient was likewise impossible to get except on freighters, but the American President Lines hoped to start sending converted transports to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Manila in June. The Matson Navigation Co. planned to resume sailings to New Zealand and Australia as soon as its four "white ships" (the Matsonia, Monterey, Lurline and Mariposa) are returned and reconverted from troop carriers, probably...
...Glory. Spain was still a feudal monarchy, its last shred of ancient grandeur dispelled by Yankee ironclads at Santiago and Manila Bay, when Francisco Franco first took notice of his star. By family and caste tradition he should have been a sailor. Because Spain was too poor to afford any more naval officers, he became a soldier. From seaside El Ferrel, in his native Galicia, he went to the Alcazar military school in Toledo. In 1912, at 20, he was a slender, shiny-eyed captain getting his baptism of fire and helping carve a new Spanish empire in Morocco...
...banana liners were diverted to more pressing runs, the golden fruit was left to rot where it grew. United Fruit, first lord of the banana empire, maintained its dividends mainly through revenue from ships and Cuban sugar estates. In Central America, United helped make up for U.S. losses of Manila hemp (and incidentally kept Central Americans employed) by cultivating needed abac...