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...movement is afoot to change the name of the Islands to "Quezon." Already there is a Quezon City. Students of the State-supported University of the Philippines have organized a Quezon-for-King Club. It was apparent last week to many an observer that the Philippines, given ten years to learn how a democracy should be run, were instead learning how to run a dictatorship. It was the first Government under the U. S. flag to edge towards totalitarianism...
Little Mr. Quezon should have been pleased. He was-until he began to think what it would be like to be cast into a world full of wolves. After Japan began its invasion of China, Quezon made a hurried trip to Tokyo. A year later, intimates reported that Quezon was in favor of a re-examination (politicalingo for postponement) of independence...
Francis B. Sayre, appointed High Commissioner last year, arrived in Manila and flatly declared that the Tydings-McDuffie Act meant what it said: the Philippines were to be cut loose in 1946. Wiggling Mr. Quezon suggested an international conference to guarantee the neutrality of his defenseless islands. This summer it was reported that he intended to visit Washington to complain that Commissioner Sayre had trespassed on his rights. Last week he had his resident commissioner in Washington issue a statement that his Government intends to buy at least $2,000,000 worth of commodities in the U. S. every year...
Behind all Mr. Quezon's dance steps was the threat of Japan, crouching 1,300 nautical miles north, her horn-rimmed eyes on British and Dutch Borneo and Australia, one nostril delicately cocked at the Philippines. A Japanese once remarked to a Filipino politician in Manila: "If we invade you it will only be to teach you that you are not occidentals." As Mr. Quezon well knows, Japan would not even have to make a military invasion. Quezon's islands would drop like ripe fruit. Japanese farmers already have a strong foothold in the archipelago, and Philippine independence...
...Japan played the soft music for Quezon's dips and turns, last week it was apparent that Quezon had begun to dance still more exotic steps. Imperious boss of the Islands but still subject to their U. S.-made laws, Quezon has proposed an amendment to the Tydings-McDuffie Act which would permit him to run for a second term as President of the Commonwealth, then let a chosen subordinate hold the office until he can run again in 1945 and become the first President of the new sovereign State. The Filipinos approved the amendment in a plebiscite...