Excerpts from the Press Conference
02/20/1941
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Our decency was mistaken for weakness.
The suffering, humiliation, and mental torture that you have endured since the barbarous, unprovoked, and treacherous attack upon the Philip...
We have the will and the power to teach her the cost of treachery and deceit.
We and our Philippine brothers in arms- with the help of Almighty God- will drive out the invader; we will destroy his power to wage war aga...