Land of the Morning: Nazi Germany

Sunday, January 20, 2013

President Quezon Rescrued 1,300 Jews

IN A VIDEO documentary, "An Open Door: Jewish Rescue in the Philippines," author Sharon Delmedo worked with award-winning filmmaker Noel M. Izon in producing the video that tells of how President Manuel L. Quezon rescued around 1,300 Jewish refugees running away from Nazi repression in Germany and Austria opened the door of the Philippines for their refuge. On 1938 December 5, President Quezon announced that opened the Philippines for the "entrance of such Jewish people as we could absorb and who would not be a burden."

Please check the Open Door website for more information.

Quotes that History Will Remember

Would the bishops rather that we keep mum or we lie about it? Would they want us to just keep quiet about this?--Aleta Tolentino, PCSO Director

We do not want to turn over another unfinished business to the next administration. It stops with us.--Teresita Deles, Presidential Adviser for the Peace Process

I believed then, as I believe now, that the court... was overly intrusive with respect to a power that does not belong to it by restrainingh without hearing a coequal branch of government.--Associate Justice Maria Lourdes Sereno, Supreme Court of the Philippines

This Court, in striking down EO 1 creating the Truth Commission, overrules the manifest will of the Filipino people to start the difficult task of putting an end to graft and corruption in government, denies the President his basic constitutional power to determine the facts in his faithful execution of the law, and suppresses whatever truth may come out in the purely fact-finding investigation of the Truth Commission... History will record the ruling today of the Court's majority as a severe case of judicial overreach that made the incumbent President a diminished Executive in an affront to a co-equal branch of government, crippled our already challenged justice system, and crushed the hopes of the long suffering Filipino people for an end to graft and corruption in government.--Senior Associate Justice Antonio Carpio, Supreme Court of the Philippines

The people's freedom to criticize the government includes the right to criticize the courts, their proceedings and decisions... And to enhance the open court principle and allow the people to make fair and reasoned criticism of the courts, the sub judice rule excludes from its coverage fair and accurate reports (without comment) of what have actually taken place in open court.--Associate Justice Arturo Brion, Supreme Court of the Philippines