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...great part of my family is still in Santo Domingo, I am forced to ask you to keep this matter confidential as retaliation is the weapon that the despot uses in the most effective manner...
...arguments. He conceded that victory might have come sooner if there had been a unified department "in the period when we were struggling to build up power." He emphasized the waste inherent in a dual system, e.g., duplicate hospitals, one Army and one Navy, side by side on Espiritu Santo. General Marshall also anticipated one of the main lines of the Navy's counterattack: he urged that Congress should not bother itself with details now, but should lay down the broad principle of a unified military department-the details would work themselves out by evolutionary process...
General Douglas MacArthur got an honorary Doctor of Laws from Manila's University of Santo Tomas, whose rector acclaimed him "greater than Alexander the Great or Napoleon, man of destiny and savior of Christian civilization...
...universities were in even worse shape. The once-handsome campus of the University of the Philippines was a shell-pocked wreck. Santo Tomás University, which had housed civilian war prisoners during the occupation, managed to reopen its law, education, commerce and liberal arts colleges, but most of its halls were filled with hospital beds. Luzon's small private colleges, which once had 22,000 students, reopened with only skeleton courses for their few thousand registrants...
...raced the spectacular ist Cavalry, rolling on wheels. Beightler swore: "We've fought our way a hundred miles and we won't let those feather merchants beat us in." Through a mid-morning mist the 37th saw Manila at last. The ist Cavalry, plunging ahead to liberate Santo Tomas, did beat them in, but it was the 37th which paddled across the Pasig River to seize the old walled Intramuros, where the vindictive Japs trapped in Manila fought to the end. Then the 37th turned north again to join the 33rd in the capture of Baguio...