THE day of his twenty seventh wedding anniversary, April 14, 1948, was also the day before his death. It began, like all his days, with visitors, and ended, like all his days, with even more visitors. He was, after all, Manuel Roxas and he was President of the Philippines. His close friend and adviser, slim, [...]
Chapter 12: The End of the Beginning Manila awaited anxiously as the coast guard cutter Anemone, steaming at full speed from the Visayas, made its way to the capital. The two days of a nation deprived of a president were about to end. The man who thought he was in danger of succumbing to heart [...]
Chapter 2: The coming man (1892-1922) On the first of January 1892, in the town of Capiz in the province of the same name, a posthumous child was born. The child’s mother was Rosario Acuna vda. De Roxas, a widow only 22 years of age, her giving birth shrouded by two tragedies. Her husband, Gerardo, [...]
Chapter 1 The End of the Beginning IN the year of our lord 1948, in the hot summer month of July, the Philippines could look forward to celebrating its second birthday as an independent state. But that wasn’t what really interested people. Then, as now, what was on people’s minds was the coming election. It [...]
Revised Outline and Chapter Summaries (7/13/01) (Please note that the chapters are highly compressed as they are only 20 pages each. Further 2 pages each for foreword, preface; 4-6 pages for introduction/prologue) i. Foreword: to be decided by the Roxas Foundation ii. Preface: To be decided by the Roxas Foundation iii. Author’s introduction/prologue This is [...]
Prologue: the Rizalian approach to political action Rizal, the Philosophy of nation-building; Mabini’s call for restoring freedom under the Americans; the assumptions of RSM’s formative years Chapter I Blue Eagle, The King 1917-1939 RSM in the context of his times, his family, his schooling, the conscious nation-building of his generation and the emergence of political [...]
Concept Paper for a documentary: “Sitting in Darkness” On 4 February 1999, we commemorated the centennial of the start of the Filipino – American war. This is a period in our history that is not familiar to many, since the emphasis is usually on the 12 June 1898 Declaration of independence and not thereafter. This [...]
For John Silva GBR Foundation Precis for the documentary The documentary will be in “you are there” style, following events from the perspective of three photographers. Background will be supplied to fill in any gaps that may occur, although for the sake of the naarative a selective process should be undertaken to concentrate on following [...]
1896 The Musical My unauthorized and incompetent translation of the Libretto by Carlos de la Paz, Jr.* “A life that is not devoted to a great and sacred purpose is like a tree without shade, and is instead merely like worthless grass.” – First part of the Kartilya of the Katipunan by Emilio Jacinto “Now [...]
