May 24, 1943
Osmeña was operated upon hurriedly on Saturday last for appendicitis. Quezon goes down to Doctors’ Hospital every day to call on him. The President told… Read More »May 24, 1943
Diary of Francis Burton Harrison
May 16, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Quezon busy writing a letter in his own hand to Osmeña in answer to a brief submitted to him by the latter. This… Read More »May 16, 1943
May 15, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Dr. Trepp tells me that Quezon is in very much better condition; that his blood pressure is down to 160–about right for his… Read More »May 15, 1943
April 29-May 1, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Quezon back from three weeks rest at Miami as guest of the military intelligence service. Originally he had planned to have me spend… Read More »April 29-May 1, 1943
March 12, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Lunch with Mr. Canceran, private secretary to Quezon. Canceran much bothered by the President’s frequent changes of plan for his trip to Florida… Read More »March 12, 1943
March 11, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Conversation with Major (Dr.) Trepp. Disillusionment of a doctor. Dr Trepp, aged 56, short, stocky with thick shoulders and a round skull–a typical… Read More »March 11, 1943
March 5, 1943
Shoreham. Quezon wired for me to come here for ten days or so to help him finish his book, which he is determined to do,… Read More »March 5, 1943
February 25, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Quezon says that when he first came to Washington as Resident Commissioner he, like most Filipinos, believed that when they saw an American… Read More »February 25, 1943
February 21-23, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Summary of events here during my two weeks of absence: The letter Quezon was drafting when I left, in which he asked the… Read More »February 21-23, 1943