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Only one issue was at stake when some 2,000,000 button-eyed Filipinos went to the polls last week to elect a President: By how big a majority would they return frail, dapper little Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina to office...
Ailing Manuel Quezon (he has tuberculosis), President since 1935, did most of his campaigning from bed. He showed himself in his sleek car, behind a motorcycle escort, only when alarmists shouted that he was dying. In his Malacanan Palace, changing from one bright-colored dressing gown to another, the 63-year-old President played bridge, ran off movies for his friends, with his thin fingers deftly manipulated the wires that control Philippine politics...
...election was assured. But Manuel Quezon wanted it made unanimous. Only three parties were allowed on the ballot: Quezon's Nationalist Party; the Popular Front Party of sick, old Juan Sumulong; and the small radical Ganap Party, whose pro-Japanese founder is in jail. Running with Quezon was his Vice President, tall, slant-eyed Sergio Osmeña, whose popularity in the Philippines is equal to the President's. Every one of the 122 Nacionalista candidates for the Senate and the Assembly was hand-picked by Quezon, who shuffled them as a bridge player shuffles cards while...
...uses it for flying instruments, maps, charts. Movie audiences in Manila now see newsreels almost as soon as San Franciscans. Manila doctors Clipper X-ray films to U.S. specialists, who send their diagnoses back by cable. Human ashes go home by Clipper for U.S. burial. Last Christmas President Manuel Quezon Clippered 42 boxes of cigars to U.S. politicians...
...Government got further assurances last week of the loyalty of Filipinos. Months ago, fiery little President Manuel Quezon vigorously pledged his allegiance to the U.S. Last week, labor leaders representing tens of thousands of the islands workers called on Lieut. General Douglas MacArthur, told the General that they too were ready to go down the line...