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...goes to war in the Pacific, her first defensive problem will be the Philippines. What happens there depends mightily on President Manuel Luis Quezon, volcanic, theatrical, temperamental, ambitious politico of 62 crowded years, called the smartest politician in Asia, whom even tuberculosis cannot keep in bed when he gets excited about something. And last week President Quezon finally placed himself on record for the first time about where he stands on World...
...still weak, but not too weak to make his pledge strong-that he and his people would support the U.S. if the U.S. should find itself at war. It was Loyalty Day, a new holiday in the Philippines, with 100,000 demonstrating in Manila alone. Said President Quezon...
...Quezon can ordinarily count on about 75 or 85% of the vote on any issue he puts up to the Filipinos. By masterly handling of patronage (he even appoints the village schoolteachers), by a passionate love of all things Filipino (except the opposition), and by a colorful personality that keeps him bounding into the limelight, he has kept first place among Island politicos for 21 years. But when the war broke out, Quezon was sick. U.S. observers were worried by his silence, his brooding on his yacht, his long rest-cure treatment at the health resort of Baguio...
...after the President's speech, in a slick little four-way play, a rigid export control was slapped down on Philippine trade. The President signed an act curbing Japanese access to Philippine raw materials. By prearrangement President Manuel Quezon immediately signed a proclamation implementing the new license system. Then High Commissioner Francis Bowes Sayre, almost in the same breath, announced that the act was in effect at once under his supervision...
...chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long-she has little respect. And toward American colonists she is passionately irreverent. "They build for themselves a barricaded American life wherever they are. They insulate themselves as thoroughly as possible against the life of the country they are in. They are rich...