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Show Washington, D. C Ql'EZON CN THE JOB It's bad news for the Japs that ! President Quezon of the Philippines Is back in Washington. They knew though it was not generally real-tzed real-tzed in Washington that Quezon had uffered a relapse of his old illness, tuberculosis, which has plagued him off and on for 20 years. Quezon ws a well man at the time of Pearl Harbor. But confinement confine-ment In the dampness of Corregidor, during the Jap attack, brought the Illness back again. That was one reason MacArthur urged him to return re-turn to the U. S. in a submarine. When he came to Washington, Que-ton Que-ton was advised to take things easy. Instead he rushed into the official of-ficial activities of Philippine Commonwealth Com-monwealth affairs, not sparing him-1 elf. His physicians advised him not to remain In Washington during the summer of 1942, nor last winter. But he remained nevertheless. Result Re-sult was that last spring he suffered a further relapse. Specialists were summoned, and Quezon was given the stern advice that he would have to get out of the humid climate of Washington immediately, imme-diately, if he wanted to live. Yielding Yield-ing to pressure, he went to Saranae, N. Y and submitted himself to a rigid discipline during most of the past summer. Quezon led the life of an Invalid, sitting in the sunshine in a wheel chair, listening to the radio, or to his nurses as they read to him. Result Re-sult of this regime was that the tuberculosis tu-berculosis was arrested, and Quezon I gained 12 pounds. When the Japs heard of - his relapse, re-lapse, they were ready to say to the people of ' the Philippines, where Quezon is still highly popular: "Look, this is the skeleton you pin your hopes to.". - ' But today Quezon is back on his feet and back at his desk, still hoping to realize his one great ambition, to see U. S. and Philippine forces march Into Manila. .-i .-.. SEVEN MINUTES TO WAR Every day now, pictures are arriving ar-riving in a litUe room in Washing- . ton which seven inutes . before were in Algiers, 3?400 miles away. One day, Just after the landing in Italy, 41 pictures came through the air and landed safely on top of the Pentagon building, in a little room marked "Confidential Keep Out." Inside that room is a little machine ma-chine not as big as a typewriter, with a little cylinder on it. The cylinder cyl-inder spins around, exposing a negative nega-tive to dots and dashes of light, and after seven minutes, the exposure is complete. From there on, it's merely mere-ly a matter of developing the negative, nega-tive, and the U. S. public has a picture pic-ture of the landings In Italy, or the surrender of the Italian fleet. And ditto for the South Pacific. It is farther away, but the seven minute min-ute requirement still holds. From an unmentionable post in Australia, the dots of light flash' into the little room, and you have a- picture of General MacArthur flying in a bomber over . New Guinea. The pictures may have been taken by any one of the four photo syndicates syndi-cates Acme, AP, INP, or Life or they may have been taken by the Army Signal service. In any case, they can be telephotoed only by the official airwaves.- - What would be a highly expensive daily transmission cost for the photo agencies is thus fully .borne by the war r1nnrtmnt. Officials lustifv the cost in terms of keeping the public abreast of the warr-rin fact, only sev. en minutes away from the war. MERRY-GO-ROUND Ex-Congressman Joe Casey ol Massachusetts, now doing various Inside Jobs for the White House, recently re-cently made a political survey of New England, reported mat Maine was so strong for Roosevelt's war policies that the only Republican who could beat him was Wendell Willkie . . . Admiral Standley, U. S. ambassador to Russia, has cleared with the state department a significant speech in which, after praising Russian victories plus those of England and the United States, he says: "A victory for one is a victory for all" , . , Highly Inflammatory Inflam-matory remarks in Negro newspapers, newspa-pers, some of them close to sedition, are being studied by the army . . . Lew Douglas, war shipping administrator, admin-istrator, was personally thanked b the President for the Job he did Ir helping to smooth British and Amer- lean general sian xeeungs at Quebec. There have been some very vigorous differences between them, and thanks partly to Douglas, things ' were smoothed out considerably- et Quebec.' . : CAPITAL CHAFF C. Winsome Molly Flynn of OCD re calls that on the day before Pearl Harbor she drove up to the White House door; on invitation to Mrs. Roosevelt's tea, and was told by guards, ''We don't see your name on the list, but it's all right if fou say so." Today, ybu can't get near the White House. C. Among the canniest , officials ol OCD is Stanley McCandless, on leave from Yale university. At Yale, he was a stage-lighting expert. With OCD, he is a .black-out expert - |