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While the Japs are doing their best to split the loyalty of Filipinos to the U.S., they would also like nothing better than to split the loyalty of the U.S. to the Filipinos. In that, their chances of success were equally small. Said forthright, eloquent Navy Secretary Frank Knox this week: "It is unthinkable and intolerable for the United States to regard the attack on the Filipinos as any other than an attack upon ourselves. . . . Until they are again free, the obligation upon us to re-establish their freedom is one which no honorable nation would fail to fulfill...
...Retreat. Manila was an unequivocal liability. It lies in flat land with its back to the bay. It could be only a trap-a soft spot for a wedge to be driven home by the Jap to split the Army. As he had long planned to do in a last-ditch fight, General MacArthur abandoned Manila, already declared an open city, already heavily bombed...
...weather was too bad for the evacuating forces to keep the rendezvous. Axis troops attacked the Commandos while they were waiting. They split into small groups and some of them made their way back to the British advance forces...
...Mexico, bulky Pablo Neruda, Chilean poet and consul general, celebrated the New Year with friends at the resort town of Cuernavaca. As the group drank up to "Viva Roosevelt" and "Viva Camacho," ten heel-clicking Germans Heil-Hitlered, split open Neruda's head with a blackjack. Next day five Mexican politicos formally offered to duel with the Nazis...
Money. In 1940 Washington split Business' money-power atom, taking the power but leaving business free to make money. In 1941 Business made plenty of money (even, to its surprise, after taxes). But for the individual businessman the money, thanks to the personal income tax, began to lose its value...