It started snowing in the middle of the afterward the air alarm was sounded. The combination seemed ominous after the heavy raid last month but we decided to return to Tokyo anyway from the mountain resort where we had spent a few days. It turned, out to be Kanda again; some fire bombs, we were also informed on our arrival, had been dropped on the war office, causing small fires which one of the embassy servants described as “great white flowers blooming suddenly on the lawn.”
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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