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From Washington last week, ailing, exiled Philippine President Manuel Quezon sent his countrymen advice not to worry if they had to yield their property to the Japs. Quezon proclaimed Filipino adherence to a United Nations declaration pledging the return of all looted property in Axis-conquered countries to the rightful owners...
...President observed, on a radio broadcast with Philippine President Manuel Quezon and Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho, the seventh anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth. Said Manuel Quezon: "The story of American-Filipino cooperation is something that every citizen of the United States ought to know and take pride...
When MacArthur went to the Philippines, Eisenhower went with him. There he learned to fly and got a pilot's license. For his administrative work he earned the admiration of Manuel Quezon, who subsequently pinned a D.S.C. of the Philippines on him. But it was when he came back to the U.S. in 1940 that the hard-working Kansan began...
...short a time in all the history of radio. Among them were fabulous boatbuilder Henry J. Kaiser and world-traveler Wendell Willkie, Army Supply Chief General Brehon B. Somervell and FBI Chief J. Edgar Hoover, Agriculture Secretary Claude Wickard, Manpower Boss Paul V. McNutt and Philippine President Manuel Quezon...
...press, President Quezon said nothing of what his Government-in-exile would do. But it was plain that he considered himself only a temporary visitor. Though his health is frail he knew that, like his friend General MacArthur, he will some day return to his people who are hiding in the hills, to the little, slight-boned, brave men who are standing up, silent, patient, enduring, against...