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...paying for it. Consequently, when Vice President & Mrs. John Nance Garner, with a party of 46 Senators and Representatives, their ladies, sailed away from Seattle last week aboard the American Mail Liner President Grant as the official guests of the Philippine Commonwealth to the inauguration of President Manuel Quezon next month, everyone was as happy as a jay bird with a worm...
...Significantly, the State Department has announced that there will be no official foreign delegations at President Quezon's inaugural, since for the next ten years of Commonwealth status, Washington will still remain the diplomatic contact between the Philippines and the rest of the world...
Also outside the U. S. last week was the third ranking member of the Cabinet, Secretary of War George Henry Dern (see above). In a high and exclusive mood he had chosen to attend the Quezon inaugural in Manila, not as a member of Vice President Garner's democratic party aboard an ordinary merchantman but as the solitary official passenger aboard the U. S. cruiser Chester. On his own, he was having the time of his life in Tokyo...
...mighty good thing for all the world," neatly took advantage of this opportunity to say a good word for a hometown boy now in the official family by reminding Salt Lake Citizens that Secretary of War George H. Dern is representing the President next month at Philippine President Manuel Quezon's inaugural...
...palace, demoted to Resident High Commissioner. Further loss to white face in the Orient was the fact that until July 4, 1946, when the Philippines become absolutely autonomous, the natives will do all the governing and the U. S. will have all the responsibility, largely because of shrewd Senor Quezon's legislative bargain-hunting in Washington during the past few years. One important phase of his bargaining was not made public until after his election last week. Since it is to the interest of the Commonwealth's first President, as well as to the U. S. and all other white...