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...Bataan peninsula, rich young Andres Soriano, onetime unofficial pro-Fascist representative of General Francisco Franco in Manila, organized Filipino volunteers into a "Rizal Legion" (named for the national patriot, Jose Rizal) for jungle counter-sniping at the Japanese. > "Increasingly effective" throughout other parts of the Philippines was the F.F.F. (Fight for Freedom), a secret band whose terrorizing of Japanese, as well as of native traitors and informers, recalled the dreaded KKK (Kataas-tassan Kaga-lang-galang Katipunan ng Bayan) which opposed Spanish rule...
...educated Tagalogs and Visayans-for all the Filipinos who learn English, admire U.S. ways, vote for President Quezon, argue about independence, revere the memory of José Rizal, whose pulse was normal as he faced a Spanish firing squad-for these the Japanese conquest was the unbelievable crisis of their destiny as a people. For the individual it meant facing a situation for which nothing in his education or history had prepared...
...again rumored last week, would soon resign as Secretary of War to replace High Commissioner McNutt at Manila) had convinced him that it would be wiser to get along amiably with Commissioner McNutt took the form of a speech at an open-air banquet in Manila's Rizal Stadium. President Quezon, who had called on Commissioner McNutt the day after his return, declared: "As the Representative of the President of the United States, the High Commissioner naturally takes precedence over the President of the Philippines...
Next day steamship and factory whistles blew, crowds lined the streets for a parade-but not to celebrate the news from Washington. Ignoring that, most Manil-ans were honoring Jose Rizal y Mercado, patriot executed by Spaniards...
...been convicted in 1900, aged 16, of procuring the abduction of a woman by bandits. He had served a year in Bilibid Penitentiary. Subsequently, 1901-1907, he was in the Government service as an interpreter arid in other capacities. In 1909 the Governor General appointed him Mayor of Montalban, Rizal. In 1916 he was elected Governor of Rizal. In 1922 he was reelected. In 1916, when elected Governor, the Governor General made an investigation of Rodriguez's record, and Rodriguez was allowed to stay in office. General Wood added that Rodriguez had proven an efficient Governor...