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Last week, all dressed up in a white suit, Manuel Quezon stood up to address the students of the Philippines and nobody, not even himself, controlled him. He put aside his prepared manuscript, waved his arms and launched into a speech as impassioned as it was unwise. Its general purport was clear enough...
...Quezon named the Civil Liberties Unions of the U.S. and the Philippines. They had charged him with "dictatorial" ambitions when he got from the Legislature more emergency power for defense...
...this attack on the U.S., Manuel Quezon's audience responded with loud applause...
Haunting the President's restless mind was Manila's lack of air-raid shelters. U.S. authorities expect that if war begins Tokyo will be worse bombed than Manila, but talk about bombing the paper cities of Japan is no comfort to Quezon. In the old city of Manila, walled and narrow, there are no underground shelters, for the water table is only three feet underground. Underground shelters are not a necessity if Manila receives only sporadic bombings, but a greater danger than bombs is fire...
Into the parks, roads and buildings of magnificent Quezon City President Quezon is pouring an estimated $50,000,000-but the vulnerable sections of Manila still need fire-fighting equipment. Quezon's position was that until 1946 the U.S. is responsible for protecting the Philippines. Position of Commissioner Sayre was that the U.S. is indeed responsible for Philippine defense but that the law does not cover civilian protection. From gold devaluation and the sugar-processing tax the Philippine Treasury actually has a U.S. credit of $54,000,000. But an act of Congress in Washington is needed to release...