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"THE JAPS CAME (BacL
... to Manila Today
by CEDRIC FOSTER
Tribute and warning at the beginning of the peace.
(This is Swing's first article by Mr. Foster since his return from the Pacific, where he spent some weeks during mid-summer and where, on July 4, he sat with General MacArthur three hours after the Genera! had announced the liberation of the Philippines. We reprint the partial text of Mr. Foster'i broadcast over the Mutual Network on Sunday, August 19, the day officially named by President Truman as a day of prayer in appreciation of victory and in remembrance.)
ON this day we can afford to remember the men and women of Corregidor . . . the men and women who have fought on all fields of battle that the torch of liberty should not flicker and die. As General MacArthur said of Corregidor . . . "They need no comment from me. They sounded their own story at the mouth of their guns. They scrolled their own epitaph on enemy tablets. But through the bloody haze of their last reverberating shot, I shall always seem to see the vision of those grim, gaunt, and ghostly men . . . still unafraid."
The Japs came back to Manila today, not as a conquering host bent upon grinding the necks of free men under the hobnails of their trampling boots. They came back in surrender to those men. Men whose spirits never
flagged, whose courage never waned, whose determination never died . . . even in the face of what the world described as insuperable odds. The Japs came back to Manila today to see their own handiwork ... a ruined and gutted city. The Japs came back to Manila today to smell the nauseating stench of their own dead, still lying in the rubble of the onceglorious monuments of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. They came back to see with their eyes and to so report to their War-Lord Emperor Hirohito the might and the strength and the power which a free people fashioned with their own hands . . . which they transported tens of thou' sands of miles on ships which tHey, themselves, had built ... to the scene of the fleeting Japanese triumph.
The Japs came back to Manila today to be greeted by American officers who stood with impassive face, who subconsciously started to accept an outstretched Japanese hand, but who in the flash of the next second ignored the gesture ... to officers who gave only a slight curt nod of recognition when interpreters carried through the formal introductions.