I heard today of a contract of lease that indicates how even one year ago there were those who could read the signs of the times. One of the diplomatic missions in Japan rented an hotel in a summer resort in the mountains last year. The Japanese proprietor insisted on a proviso that had to be accepted: the rents would be doubled the day the first American bomb fell in Tokyo.
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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