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Gentle Aurora Aragon Quezon was a well-loved figure in the Philippines. The wife of the late Manuel Quezon, first President of the Philippines, she had long led a quiet, austere life devoted to charities and the rearing of her family. When the President died, she turned down the pension awarded her by the government, so that the money might be used for needier war widows and orphans. Even the Communist-led Hukbalahaps, who spread terror through the hills of Central Luzon, could find no word to say against Doña Aurora...
Last week, with her eldest daughter Maria Aurora ("Baby"), her younger daughter's husband and a handful of Filipino officials, Mrs. Quezon traveled by car from Manila to Baler, where she was to dedicate a memorial to her husband. Riding in a station wagon with her relatives and Major General Rafael Jalandoni, she led the party through the mountains northeast of Manila where the Huks are thickest. All her companions felt that there was no danger involved where Mrs. Quezon was concerned...
Philippine leaders were worried. President Quezon, never too great a lover of the U.S. and a continual proponent of freedom, proposed Philippine "neutrality" -which, in effect, would have turned the islands over to Japan. But Franklin Roosevelt assured him that the U.S. would fight to the last American for the Philippines; and Douglas MacArthur, getting ready to retreat to Australia, promised to return. Quezon, and the Philippines, stuck...
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...
...Last week, the body of Manuel Quezon, who died at Saranac Aug. 1, 1944, and was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, was en route back to the Philippines aboard the U.S. carrier Princeton...