The Waterbury Democrat., 1942-06-17

going to be informal. The Vice President thinks I should be more formal. And when he becomes President-which he will in one year-he can have lots of formality. But for the time being let's take off our cOats."
 Vice. President Oslnena, seated across the table, grinS good-natur' edly, also takes off his coat.
 "When I was in the Philip pines and our people were ap- pealing daily for help against the Onrushing eenny, I cofess I was bitter against the United States" President Quezon says quite frankly. "And when we heard that more troops had been sent to Iceland at . time when just Q few planes might have turned the tide of victory for us, the lot of us were bitter. " "But now that have. been
 in Australia and the. United States and see the entire war picture understand and ap- j prove. I realize that you have to make some retreats in order to achieve victory. But mean- while our Filipino people are itching for the day when we can raise the flag again in Manila" P. I. GOVERNMENT IN EXILE
 President Quezon, who has known most members of the U. s. Senate Ultimately for many years, already has rallied his govern ment, holds cabinet meetings in Washington and is laying plans for the return to Manila.
 One thing that irls him is the dictum put forward by High Commissioner Francis Sayre that all letters from Quezon to the U. S government must clear through Sayre. It so happens that Quezon knows many U. s. officials better than Sayre, can call a score of Senators by their first names, is on intimate poker playing acquaintance with others. So the idea of using the stiff, protocolic channel of the High Commissioner annoys him to the core.
 As a matter of fact. many U. S. officials believe that earlier re- lations with the Philippine Presi- dent, especially at Corrigidor, were not handled too diplolnati- cally. Friends of Quezon say that during the war-weary weeks that he was cooped up on Cor regidor, High Commissioners Sayre came to him and inquired re- garding his plans for leaving. Que- zon said he planned to go to the southern islands, unoccupied by the Japs and rest. ''The Fili- pin0s would never surrender me up," he explained, land I could stay there indefinitely"
 But Commissioner Sayre argued that they should both remain in Corregidor to the very end.
 We should die if necessary sail Sayre, proposing that they set an example of courage and re- sistance to the Filipino people.
 The next day General MacAr- thur came to see President Que- zon as he did every day, and Que- zon told him of his conversation with Commissioner Sayre.
 "That's funny" remarked Mac
 Arthur, HSayre was in to see me . just two or three days ago want
 ing me to cable Washington for
 a submarine to take him home. !
 refused, but told him thst if he
 wanted to draft the cable him-
 self would send it under his
 name." "
 Shortly thereafter Admiral Rockwell sent submarine from nearby waters. By this time rela- tions between Quezon and Sayre had become so strained that Que- zon and Vice President OsmeEla re- fused to leave on the same sub- marine with Sayre. And since President Roosevelt some time be- fore had invited Quezon Co come to the untied States, Gen. A6acAr- fnur interven0d and set tlls