January 29, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. The newspapers this morning gave Premier Hideki Tojo’s speech of yesterday to the Diet in Tokyo in which he promised independence to Burma.… Read More »January 29, 1943
Diary of Francis Burton Harrison
January 26-27, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Quezon is offered $1,000 a lecture for ten meetings by Getts, a lecture promoter, who came to lunch with his wife, the former… Read More »January 26-27, 1943
January 20, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Quezon and Nieto back from an hour with J. Edgar Hoover, Chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ever since Coolidge’s day. He… Read More »January 20, 1943
January 18, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Morning at Elizalde’s office, discussing with him, Ugarte and Zafra preparation of our official report on the recent international conference at Mont Tremblant.… Read More »January 18, 1943
January 9-10, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Quezon very friendly and gracious–perhaps making up for the incident of the week before, when, knowing that I was coming from Charlottesville on… Read More »January 9-10, 1943
January 7-8, 1943
Shoreham Hotel. Arrived in answer to a telegram asking me to come as soon as I could. Quezon was looking very well and in good… Read More »January 7-8, 1943
December 15, 1942
On my own return from the two weeks session of the Institute of Pacific Relations at Mont Tremblant, Quebec, I reported to Quezon at the… Read More »December 15, 1942
December 3, 1942
I was sent by President Quezon from Washington as a member of the Philippine delegation to the Eighth Conference of the Institute of Pacific Relations… Read More »December 3, 1942
December 1, 1942
Quezon thinks Admiral Leahy arranged for the occupation of North Africa, but when he was “recalled” from Vichy he was really getting out before the… Read More »December 1, 1942