Bataan: One Year After
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Title
Bataan: One Year After
Date
1943-04-09
Description
The Philippines was the official publication of the Commonwealth Government on exile in Washington, published between 1941 and 1944, when Manuel Quezon died in exile. Philippines included several articles by Quezon himself, like this “Bataan: One Year after”, which remembered the Battle of Bataan and the Bataan Death March. The Battle of Bataan was a military defeat of spectacular proportions, but would be used as a propagandistic symbol of brotherhood between American and Filipino nations and a shared defense of American values such as democracy and freedom, especially in the wake of communist threats, nationalist fervor, and social unrest that emerged in late 1950. The article shows this was already the case during WWII, as Quezon argued that the “ideals of freedom and democracy” gave men “the will to endure faggots and noose and firing squad” to bring those “dreams”, brought to the Archipelago by the Americans, to practical realization. The Filipinos, argued Quezon, “fought because America had given them Freedom”, even though there was some conflict with the US before they realized the “honest efforts of America to help them make progress in every field of human endeavor and [...] achieve the democratic way of life”.
Source
Quezon, Manuel L. "“Bataan: One Year After”, Philippines, vol. III, num. 2, April 9, 1943, pp. 1-2. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.
Relation
Kiehlbauch, S. “A Complicated Legacy: The Battle of Bataan in US Cold War Propaganda”. In The Forum: Journal of History, Vol. 8, No. 1 (2016): 9.
José, Ricardo T. “War and Violence, History and Memory: The Philippine Experience of the Second World War.” In Contestations of Memory in Southeast Asia, edited by Roxana Waterson and Kwok Kian-Woon. Singapore: National University of Singapore Press, 2012: 185-200.
Young, Donald J. The Battle of Bataan: A Complete History. Jefferson: McFarland & Company, 2009.Creator
Manuel Quezon
Publisher
Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository
Contributor
Emilio Vivó Capdevila
Language
English
Citation
Manuel Quezon, “Bataan: One Year After,” Philperiodicals, accessed May 20, 2024, https://philperiodicals-expo.uantwerpen.be/items/show/84.