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Land & People. The 7,083 islands of Manuel Roxas' steaming land are part of the off-Asia continental shelf, running 1,120 miles from Chinese Formosa in the north to British and Dutch Borneo in the south. Two seasons (wet and dry) make the islands fertile and the climate debilitating; typhoons, snakes and the islands' strategic position make them dangerous. The brown and purple mountains, the beaches like white teeth, the magic water, the hectic sunsets, and above all, the deep, hushed, lusting green of the jungle make it a lotos-land-except to politicians...
From Corregidor, MacArthur ordered Leaders Quezon and Osmeña to escape to the U.S. His aide, sad-eyed Brigadier General Manuel Roxas-who was still on Bataan-was ordered by Quezon to remain behind as the head of the Philippine Government. Although Quezon later suggested that he come to the U.S., Manuel Roxas chose to stay (and was captured by the Japs on Mindanao). This decision was probably the turning point of his career. For when the first postwar elections came along, the Filipinos quite obviously preferred a man who had stayed behind to Sergio Osme...
...Heir. Manuel Roxas was born on New Year's Day, 1892, in the house of his well-to-do grandfather in Capiz, on the Visayan island of Panay. His father had been killed six months before by the Spanish. At eleven, Manuel Roxas was sent to school in Hong Kong. But his dislike of Chinese food brought him back in a year to the schools of Capiz, then being set up under the American system...
...Nightmare. When war came, Manuel Roxas joined the Army, where he caught General MacArthur's eye. The Japs discovered him early in 1942 when he was a Filipino war prisoner on Mindanao. They handled him gingerly: big plans were stirring. In November 1942, they flew him to his home in Manila, wooed him, and proposed that he take part in a puppet government...
...hint of defeat crept into Manuel Roxas' prepared Independence Day speech to his countrymen. Said he: "In the world of affairs we irretrievably subscribe to the principles enunciated by the great leaders of the American revolution, to the cause and program being led today by the U.S. The system of free but guided enterprise is our system. We will defend it against the ideological onslaughts . . . of anti-democratic creeds. The proponents of these views will be protected in their right to hold and openly advocate them. They will not be protected in subversive schemes to destroy the structure...