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Semana de Manila was linked to Spanish Francoist foreign propaganda, the Spanish-speaking community of Manila, and the Catholic Church, especially the Spanish Friars, which had played an important role in Filipino history. On September 7, 1950, J.E.…

Senator Eulogio Balao (1907-1977), a WWII veteran and head of Quirino’s anti-HUK campaigns, was Secretary of Defense for President Magsaysay between 1956 and 1957. In June 1956, he published "Illogical Neutralism" in the Philippines Armed Forces…

A few months after the Korean Armistice Agreement (27 July 1953), which put an end to the Korean War and established the actual border at the 38th parallel, the Philippines Armed Forces Journal reprinted an article from Military Review by Brigadier…

Semana de Manila was also linked to Spanish Francoist foreign propaganda, publishing many articles by Falangist intellectuals and defending Hispanism, anti-communism, and the lifting of any restrictions on Franco’s Spain, by then diplomatically…

The Legioner was the official monthly organ of the Philippines Legion, a veteran association created by Manuel Roxas in 1948. Its contents were mainly military, which made it a very interesting source to understand the military conflicts of the…

1966 was a year marked by incendiary debates in congress about Filipino involvement in the Vietnam War. In March, Senator Sergio Osmeña Jr. supported sending troops there, an opinion that, as Panorama remarked, was neither that of the journal nor of…

In "A hard look at the anti-red law", published by Panorama, Perfecto V. Fernandez, professor of Law at UPHI and constitutional lawyer, argued that the Anti-Subversion Act of 1957 (Republic Act No. 1700), was politically fair (as it protected the…

Following the increasingly anti-communist tension, Philippines Armed Forces Journal published an article on “The reality of the new Huk Struggle”, in which the journal tried to unmask the “blueprint of subversion” of the Huks (which include…

The Cross: National Catholic Magazine was the official bi-monthly organ of the Knights of Columbus in the Philippines, a Catholic order brought to the Philippines in 1905 and filipinized in 1918. The Cross included all kinds of opinion articles, but…

Translation from Japanese to Tagalog of a poem by the Emperor Meiji Mitsuhito (1852-1912).Mutsuhito reigned from 1867 until his death in 1912. Traditionally, when a Japanese emperor dies, he is given a posthumous name. For that reason, after his…