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    MYSTERY MONEY?

    Nov 24, 2020 2 minutes
    —Joseph Connor

    IT WAS AN ODD THING for Philippine President Manuel L. Quezon to do with his country on the brink of disaster.

    By early January 1942, Japan had invaded the islands, sweeping aside General Douglas MacArthur’s American and Filipino troops. MacArthur’s forces were withdrawing to

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