A slender woman rose from the audience and did an impromptu flamenco, twirling about and whirling her mantilla, as Russian bass-baritone Nikolai Massenkoff sang the Gypsy ballad “Ochi Chyornye.”
“I SHOULD be the last one to pardon them, as the Japanese killed my wife and three children… I am doing this because I do not want my children and my people to inherit from me the hate for people who might yet be our friend, for the permanent interest of our countrymen.” —President Elpidio Quirino, July 6, 1953
He may have given “the shortest inaugural address,” but through an ongoing exhibit to commemorate his 125th birthday on Nov. 16, the family of President Elpidio Quirino wants today’s generation to have a memory of the postwar leader.
The 125th birth anniversary of this ‘Genuine Ilocano’ is marked this year
Not many Filipinos know about President Elpidio Quirino beyond his being the country’s sixth President, who presided over the...
