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...arranged it as a window dressing to prove to visiting U. S. officials that parliamentary government functions in the Philippines, it was only one of several matters which kept him busy last week. For while all was apparently peaceful along the Pasig-the muddy little stream that flows through Manila-Manuel Quezon was busily heating several political irons in the fire...
...opposition comes from the Philippines' Popular Front-coalition of Left politicians, who are agreed that the Quezon presidency is in effect dictatorship. To forestall any chance that the Popular Front might develop a dangerous opposition among Philippine workers, Manuel Quezon proposed to up wages 62? a day in Manila, 25? in the provinces. Political observers familiar with Filipino political tactics construed this as a classic example of Quezon's political guile. During his trip to the U. S. Manuel Quezon argued in Washington and broadcast to his constituents speeches in favor of advancing the date of Philippine national...
Joint Committee. Shortly after Manuel Quezon returned to Manila, he was followed by several thousand U. S. refugees from China. If this influx of tourists reminded President Quezon that hastening Philippine independence might be inopportune while Japan retains an imperialistic state of mind, last week was almost his last chance to reconsider his stand. Appointed by President Roosevelt partly in response to the urgings of President Quezon that the subject of advancing the date of Independence be reopened, a Joint Preparatory Committee on Philippine Affairs, headed by Ambassador John Van Antwerp MacMurray, after a month touring the islands...
...uninsured shipments. New York seamen contributed to the trouble by agitating for war risk pay when serving on ships in "endangered waters." The Dollar Line had one consolation: fat fees due from the Government for rescuing five shiploads of refugees from Shanghai and carrying 1,200 troops there from Manila...
...streets. The photographs were rushed by plane to Hongkong, put on the Clipper for San Francisco and delivered to U. S. member papers ten days after the cameras clicked. Other picture agencies were beaten by a week because their boat failed to catch the Clipper at Manila...