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Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore last week harbored the jolliest of patients. He was Senor Manuel Luis Quezon of the Philippines. The President of the Philippine Senate and No. 1 politico of the Islands kept the entire staff in stitches, rumpled all kinds of hospital rules. Senor Quezon, 56, had plenty to keep his spirits up: his longtime dream of Philippine independence from the U. S. was well on the way toward reality; he confidently expects to be the Islands' first President; he had kept Senora Quezon in Manila from worrying by entering the hospital under the name of Pedro...
...gallstones. But the would-be President of the Philippine Islands would have no truck with euphemisms. Well did he know that if the Filipinos, no prudes, ever caught him in a lie, they would certainly suspect him of suffering from a disability worse than gallstones. Therefore shrewd Politico Quezon ordered Dr. Januario R. Estrada, his personal physician and traveling companion, to telegraph a full and simple description of Dr. Young's operation to the Philippine Press. United Press helped Dr. Estrada by cabling to Manila at reduced press rates the following astonishingly frank report...
...Manuel Quezon operated by H. H. Young Oct. 26. Patient en route operating room was very good spirits joking with intimate friends. Spinal anesthesia with novocaine was used also oxygen inhalation by mask. Although fully conscious throughout operation, Quezon stood same excellently, talking at times with surgeon, physicians regarding progress operation. Half hour before a good dose morphine was injected yet he seemed unaffected stating he fully conscious. Quezon had insistently requested be placed under general anesthesia order be fully unconscious. This, however, not granted for his own good as it was pre-arranged use only local anesthetic order avoid...
...last week Sergio Osmena and Manuel Quezon, the two great leaders of the Philippine Nationalist party, marched into the Philippine legislature arm in arm. Their appearance in that fashion was greeted with surprise and applause, for they had been political enemies since a year ago when Congress offered the Philippines freedom and Senor Quezon succeeded in defeating acceptance of the offer...
...applause was as nothing compared to the demonstrations next day when the legislature in joint session adopted a resolution written by Senores Quezon and Osmena, promising "appreciation and everlasting gratitude to the President and Congress of the U. S. and to the American people." The resolution was adopted on the 36th anniversary of the day when Commodore Dewey sailed into Manila Bay and made Swiss cheese of the impotent royal navy of His Imperial, 12-year-old Majesty, Alfonso XIII, last King of Spain. It marked the formal acceptance on behalf of the Philippines of the new offer of freedom...