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...Manuel Quezon, 65, first President of the Philippine Commonwealth, lay in a log house at Saranac Lake, N.Y. He was listening: his physician was reading aloud from the Sermon on the Mount. Tuberculosis had almost conquered his fighting-bantam little body. But he did not believe he could die when the sun was shining, and now it was bright morning. After a while he asked that the radio be turned on. The news: U.S. troops had landed at Sansapor, Dutch New Guinea. Manuel Quezon, who had dreamed of re-entering Manila with General MacArthur, exclaimed: "Just 600 miles!" Then...
...Grey Bird. In Washington, Sergio Osmeña, the shrewd, quiet, Chinese mestizo, became President of the Philippines. For almost a half century Osmeña, like Quezon, had dreamed of power. But the impressionable Filipinos, fascinated by Quezon's impassioned oratory, his imperious political scheming, the glitter of his presence, thought of Sergio Osmeña as a grey bird flying beside a brightly plumaged jungle cock. Osmeña accepted his defeats quietly, finally became Manuel Quezon's political friend, came with him to the U.S. as confidant and Vice President after the fall...
...when Quezon's term as President expired, Osmeña should have succeeded him, since a Philippine election was obviously impossible. Instead he agreed with the U.S. Administration's desire to leave the ailing Quezon in office as a symbol of freedom for his conquered countrymen. Now, as President, he was content to walk again obscured by the pomp of Manuel Quezon's passing...
Herbert Hoover made him Chief of Staff in 1930; Franklin Roosevelt kept him on for an extra year-the first Chief of Staff to serve more than the usual four-year tour of duty. In 1935, Manuel Quezon invited him to reorganize the Philippine Army; in 1941, after retirement from the U.S. Army, he was recalled to head American-Filipino forces in the Far East. He commanded the forces on Bataan until ordered to Australia. Lukewarm toward air power before War II, he changed his mind quick to work hand in glove with his air chief, Lieut. General George...
President Manuel Quezon of the Philippines, continuing in Miami his two-year fight for health and homeland, appointed Colonel Carlos P. Romulo his Secretary of Information and Public Relations, gave him the Distinguished Service Star of the Philippines in the presence of Philippine Chief of Staff Major General Basilio J. Valdes; the President's aide, Colonel Manuel Nieto; the President's doctor, Major Benvenuto R. Dino; and U.S. Army Intelligence's Lieut. Colonel R. C. Hornsby, security officer for Quezon...