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...last U.S.-Philippine resistance collapsed on Corregidor, Manuel Quezon quietly arrived in the U.S. to set up his territorial Government-in-Exile. After three months on Corregidor, where he lost 18 pounds, President Quezon had followed General MacArthur to Australia. There he was almost a recluse. He smiled once, when told that Japanese propaganda broadcasts reported his death at the hands of MacArthur...
...Quezon brought his wife, two daughters and son, tall, mannerly Vice President Sergio Osmeña; Don Andrés Soriano, organizer of the Filipino guerrillas and now Quezon's Secretary of Finance, three physicians, a nurse, and a group of military aides and secretaries. The trip to the U.S., said Quezon, was made "on, under and over the sea." He landed at San Francisco from a grey Army transport. Riding to the swank Mark Hopkins Hotel in an Army car, Manuel Quezon heard newsboys shout news of the Battle of the Coral...
...General MacArthur's good friend and patron, the Philippines' President Manuel Quezon, turned up last week in Australia, immediately set up an absentee Government. Another who arrived from the Philippines was TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby...
...rescue MacArthur might take ships or seaplanes in force. Such an expedition could end in disaster. The General's wife and his young son (Arthur, 4) are with him. So are High Commissioner Francis B. Sayre, his wife, and Manuel Quezon, President of the Philippines. Could MacArthur leave them? Could he leave...
...Washington last week Mike Elizalde took an oath to uphold the Philippine Constitution as Minister without Portfolio in President Quezon's Cabinet. Thus he became in effect, the Philippine Commonwealth's Government in Exile. Of Minister Elizalde's mother and three brothers, now presumably prisoners in the hard little hands of the Japs, there was still no word...