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Even Senators joined in the questioning. Congressmen, specialists in naval affairs, asked with quiet fury: "Where is the Navy? Tell me that? Do you know? What's it doing?" There was a widespread ripple of emotion throughout the country last week at the fall of Manila (see p. 19). But the U.S. can expect stronger waves of emotion in this war-grief, rage, hate and elation. Last week a dominant emotion was bewilderment...
Only a few people straggled into the galleries to see the wind-up of the second longest session in U.S. history. Only a few Congressmen were on the floors of House & Senate, and those few were somber and bitter. It was the day word came that Manila had fallen. Texas' Tom Connally uttered Congress' stammering epitaph: "We are a peaceful people. We were not expecting a war, we were not prepared for war. ..." The gavels banged. The 77th Congress of the U.S. ended its first session...
Three days earlier, when Japanese troops closing in on Manila forced him to evacuate his capital, Manuel Quezon had left behind a four-man Cabinet to meet the invaders. Although tall, almond-eyed Vice President Sergio Osmeña was a member of this Cabinet, he was not its head. For Quezon was at political odds with his Vice President. In charge of the Cabinet-as Prime Minister-he left his personal friend and secretary, Jorge B. Vargas...
...expected that the Japanese would set up a vassal Government in Manila, put at its head a puppet President. Who? Not Manuel Quezon: even though Quezon in the past has shown no antipathy toward the Japs, Quezon is now committed to a last-ditch defense. And not Sergio Osmeña: the lean, calm, white-haired Vice President of the Philippines is half Chinese...
This was the brackish taste of defeat that American soldiers had not known in a major battle since Appomattox. To the grim, battle-weary soldiers of General Douglas MacArthur, backed up into the mountainous fastnesses of the Bataan peninsula, northwest of abandoned Manila, or desperately fending off Japanese attacks on the great harbor fortress of Corregidor, this...