Fireworks In The Phillipines

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and a prisoner of the Japanese throughout the war. In the Philippines. It was in the battered Malecanian palace in Manila. A bunch of our respondents were there last February.

President Serhilah Sminyar came in first. Looks like he is worthy, Jessup. Yeah, well, guess he's got reason to worry. Yeah. Then General Douglas MacArthur came in. Oh, he isn't losing any time. He's hardly clear the last Japanese soldier out of Manila, and here he is.

MacArthur's going to speak. On behalf of my government, I now solemnly declare the full power under the Philippine Constitution are restored to the Commonwealth. I wonder as I stood there. What's going to happen now?

And Martin standing beside me seemed to have about the same idea. Well, Menyas really got his hands full, Jessup. Eh, not only us Menyas. Oh, the whole country. The question is, who's going to run the country?

Eh, you got me. It would be the reactionaries or the liberals, the collaborators or those who didn't collaborate. The old gang or the new gang? Who runs a country when it's in political and economic and social chaos?