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...empire. A U. S. concession in China supplies the tinder. Before war is declared a huge Japanese freighter explodes in Culebra Cut, blocking the Panama Canal for months. A Japanese fleet quickly falls on the Philippines, annihilates the U. S. Asiatic squadron there, lands 100,000 troops, captures Manila in a month. The fall of Guam, after one heroic repulse, drives the U. S. from the western Pacific. A daring Japanese submarine bombards the U. S. coast. Los Angeles and San Francisco are peppered from the sky. Rounding the Horn, the U. S. Scouting force encounters two enemy submarines...
...Manila a saleswoman in a white-faced department store said: "I think it is most foolish. The leaders should be spanked...
Members of Manila's "American Colony" whose livelihoods and fortunes are wrapped in doomed hemp, sugar cane and copra looked forward to nothing save economic chaos under the intermediate government and after. They dolefully recalled the words often repeated more in earnest than in jest to U. S. military folk by rich Filipinos: "Amiga, when the last boatload of your soldiers is about to leave, tell me. I want to be on the boat before...
Arriving in Manila, Mrs, Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, 71, nodded when her son Governor General Theodore Roosevelt asked: "Do you remember when father said he would rather be Governor General of the Philippines than Vice President...
Badly muddled was Manila's reaction to passage of H. R. 7233. Owners of Benguet Consolidated, best Philippine mining stock, which has just paid a 50% dividend, dumped 2,000 shares at 50 centavos (25?) below the market quotation, so alarmed were they over the economic consequences of independence. The Philippine Legislature, sitting as an Independence Commission, wrangled and haggled from dawn to dark over H. R. 7233. Manuel Quezon, President of the Senate, denounced it as an insincere "joke," claimed it was foisted on the islands by National City Bank's investment in Cuban sugar. Cries...