One of our interpreters, excusing himself for a day’s absence, said that the heavy snowfall had tied up the local line at his neighborhood for five hours. A switch between two stations had frozen tight and, as he explained it, the repairmen from both stations had spent an hour walking to the scene, another hour discussing what should be done, two more hours going back for the necessary equipment and returning with it, and the fifth hour fixing up the switch. “I give up Japan,” he exclaimed. “We try to do everything with manpower her. Very funny, no?”
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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