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Last week this brave, ill, burning man faced a special embarrassment. The problem: Would Manuel Quezon continue to be President of the Philippine Commonwealth after Nov. 15? On that day his term definitely and formally expires; a strict interpretation of the Philippine Constitution would put dignified, intelligent Vice President Sergio Osmeña into the executive's chair. Sergio Osmeña, also in Washington, once bitterly opposed Manuel Quezon, is now his good political friend...
...Quezon brought his wife, two daughters and son, tall, mannerly Vice President Sergio Osmeña; Don Andrés Soriano, organizer of the Filipino guerrillas and now Quezon's Secretary of Finance, three physicians, a nurse, and a group of military aides and secretaries. The trip to the U.S., said Quezon, was made "on, under and over the sea." He landed at San Francisco from a grey Army transport. Riding to the swank Mark Hopkins Hotel in an Army car, Manuel Quezon heard newsboys shout news of the Battle of the Coral...
Three days earlier, when Japanese troops closing in on Manila forced him to evacuate his capital, Manuel Quezon had left behind a four-man Cabinet to meet the invaders. Although tall, almond-eyed Vice President Sergio Osmeña was a member of this Cabinet, he was not its head. For Quezon was at political odds with his Vice President. In charge of the Cabinet-as Prime Minister-he left his personal friend and secretary, Jorge B. Vargas...
...expected that the Japanese would set up a vassal Government in Manila, put at its head a puppet President. Who? Not Manuel Quezon: even though Quezon in the past has shown no antipathy toward the Japs, Quezon is now committed to a last-ditch defense. And not Sergio Osmeña: the lean, calm, white-haired Vice President of the Philippines is half Chinese...
...wanted it made unanimous. Only three parties were allowed on the ballot: Quezon's Nationalist Party; the Popular Front Party of sick, old Juan Sumulong; and the small radical Ganap Party, whose pro-Japanese founder is in jail. Running with Quezon was his Vice President, tall, slant-eyed Sergio Osmeña, whose popularity in the Philippines is equal to the President's. Every one of the 122 Nacionalista candidates for the Senate and the Assembly was hand-picked by Quezon, who shuffled them as a bridge player shuffles cards while the campaign went...