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...last week 2,000 insurgent Roxas followers crowded into Manila's Santa Ana Cabaret* drink beer, spout oratory in Tagalog, English and Spanish, and nominate him for the island's highest office. A few days later old line Nacionalistas held a nominating convention in Giro's, another nightclub, and put Osmeña's name on the ballot. The Philippines were devastated and flat broke. They would stay that way until the dilatory U.S. Congress passed legislation granting $450,000,000 for postwar rehabilitation. But now the future at least promised excitement. The hottest political campaign...
...Pacific Overseas Edition, printed by similar methods in Honolulu, Sydney, Manila, Shanghai, and other key centers...
...Manila trial of tall (6 ft.) Lieut. General Masaharu Homma added three new footnotes to history...
Last week, in the opinion of tidy, martinettish Lieut. General Robert Charlwood Richardson Jr., chief of Army forces in the mid-Pacific, Stars and Stripes went too far. It headlined a story of the Manila riots: "Patterson [Secretary of War] Branded Number One Enemy by Jeering Mob." "Nellie" Richardson forthwith forbade the editors "to refer in your newspaper discourteously to the President of the U.S., the Secretary of War, the Chief of Staff of the Army or to others in authority in the Army...
...only musical organizations worthy of the name in the Pacific Theater are the Philippine Army Band, the Manila Symphony Orchestra, the Nippon Symphony Orchestra, the Tokyo Philharmonic and the Tokyo Metropolitan Band...