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...president of the Philippines, Manuel Quezon accepted many evidences of his country's regard. Officials of the Quezon regime gave him a yacht and the use of 100-year-old Malacanan Palace, named new streets and buildings for him as fast as they were constructed. When the Philippines Congress met last autumn, after the liberation of the islands, it voted his widow a pension of 1,000 pesos a month, almost automatically...
...puppet president of Japan's Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila's ornate Malacanan Palace, once the home of Manuel Quezon. He smoked special cigars with his name printed on the band. After guerrillas wounded him while he was golfing at the Wack Wack Country Club, he was provided with an armed guard of 600 men. In return for this, José Laurel-who had been a respected Manila attorney and a member of the Philippine Supreme Court -did the bidding...
...General MacArthur these were emotion-filled days. His voice broke and his eyes filled as he stood between rusty brocaded drapes at a reception in Malacanan Palace (TIME, Mar. 5) and spoke his joy at the liberation of his beloved Manila, "cruelly punished though it be." Then he smiled, kissed Mrs. Sergio Osmea, wife of the Philippines' President, murmured, "I'm so glad you're home...
...three government buildings (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS), Manila was finally free to face the future. General Douglas MacArthur lost no time in turning over the civil administration of the charred city-and of all liberated areas in the Philippines-to the Government of President Sergio Osmeña. In Malacanan Palace this week, MacArthur proclaimed: "You are now a liberated people. . . . On behalf of my Government, I now solemnly declare . . . the full powers under the Constitution are restored to the Commonwealth...
There was still more to be seen in the streets as the staff party visited the Presidential residence, Malacanan Palace. Then Douglas MacArthur stopped for a glass of beer at San Miguel brewery; after that he headed for the front, toward the smoke-shrouded Pasig River...