Another proof that the Tokyo evacuation program is not getting along is the fact that we have been looking in vain for a house since September. Nobody‘s moving out and there is a long line waiting to move in. We have long wanted to move from our present apartment but so far we have been within talking distance of only two landlords. One wanted only neutrals. The other, whom we saw today, wanted to stay on in the house, share our diplomatic rations, and be employed as cook-butler together with his wife at a salary which would have doubled the rent.
Leon Ma. Guerrero
(March 24, 1915 — June 24, 1982). Lawyer, journalist and diplomat. Served in USAFFE (later, USFIP) in the press relations staff, then assigned to Corregidor; upon surrender of USFIP and release from internment, served as a technical assistant to Jorge B. Vargas in the Philippine Executive Commission, then resumed broadcasting (station PIAM) under the same pseudonym he had used prior to the Japanese Occupation: Ignacio Javier. He then joined the diplomatic service of the Second Republic of the Philippines, assigned to the Philippine embassy in Tokyo under Jorge B. Vargas, ambassador.
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