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Rich</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fernando-Poe-Jr">Fernando Poe, Jr.</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Theodore-Roosevelt-Jr">Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Corazon-Aquino">Corazon Aquino</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">The <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/juxtaposition" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="juxtaposition">juxtaposition</a> of U.S. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/democracy" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="democracy">democracy</a> and imperial rule over a subject people was sufficiently jarring to most Americans that, from the beginning, the training of Filipinos for self-government and ultimate independence—the Malolos Republic was conveniently ignored—was an essential rationalization for U.S. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hegemony" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="hegemony">hegemony</a> in the islands. Policy differences between the two main political parties in the United States focused on the speed with which self-government should be extended and the date on which independence should be granted.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">In 1899 Pres. <a name="ref387391" id="ref387391" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-McKinley"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/354972/William-McKinley">William McKinley</span></a> sent to the Philippines a five-person fact-finding <a name="ref387393" id="ref387393" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Philippine-Commissions"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/456370/Philippine-Commissions">commission</span></a> headed by <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Cornell-University"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/137962/Cornell-University">Cornell University</span></a> president Jacob G. Schurman. Schurman reported back that Filipinos wanted ultimate independence, but this had no immediate impact on policy. McKinley sent out the Second Philippine Commission in 1900, under <a name="ref387394" id="ref387394" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Howard-Taft"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/580223/William-Howard-Taft">William Howard Taft</span></a>; by July 1901 it had established civil government.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">In 1907 the Philippine Commission, which had been acting as both legislature and governor-general’s cabinet, became the upper house of a bicameral body. The new 80-member Philippine Assembly was directly elected by a somewhat restricted electorate from single-member districts, making it the first elective legislative body in Southeast Asia. When Gov.- Gen. <a name="ref387395" id="ref387395" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Francis-Burton-Harrison"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/255986/Francis-Burton-Harrison">Francis B. Harrison</span></a> appointed a Filipino majority to the commission in 1913, the American voice in the legislative process was further reduced.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">Harrison was the only governor-general appointed by a Democratic president in the first 35 years of U.S. rule. He had been sent by <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Woodrow-Wilson"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/644766/Woodrow-Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</span></a> with specific instructions to prepare the Philippines for ultimate independence, a goal that Wilson enthusiastically supported. During Harrison’s term, a Democratic-controlled Congress in Washington, D.C., hastened to fulfill long-standing campaign promises to the same end. The <a name="ref387396" id="ref387396" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/event/Jones-Act-United-States-1916"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/306000/Jones-Act">Jones Act</span></a>, passed in 1916, would have fixed a definite date for the granting of independence if the Senate had had its way, but the House prevented such a move. In its final form the act merely stated that it was the “purpose of the people of the United States” to recognize Philippine independence “as soon as a stable government can be established therein.” Its greater importance was as a milestone in the development of Philippine autonomy. Under Jones Act provisions, the commission was abolished and was replaced by a 24-member Senate, almost wholly elected. The electorate was expanded to include all literate males.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">Some substantial restrictions on Philippine autonomy remained, however. Defense and foreign affairs remained <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/exclusive" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="exclusive">exclusive</a> U.S. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/prerogatives" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="prerogatives">prerogatives</a>. American direction of Philippine domestic affairs was exercised primarily through the governor-general and the executive branch of insular government. There was little more than one decade of thoroughly U.S. administration in the islands, however—too short a time in which to establish lasting patterns. Whereas Americans formed 51 percent of the civil service in 1903, they were only 29 percent in 1913 and 6 percent in 1923. By 1916 Filipino dominance in both the legislative and judicial branches of government also served to restrict the U.S. executive and administrative roles.</p><div class="related-places md-content-module-right grid-xs-ad-300"> <div class="md-ad gutter-bottom"> <div data-refresh="true" id="div-gpt-ad-f71c4d0b-78a5-41f9-97a1-d1f11add2de0" data-slot="BOT2" class="google-ad-iframe ui-hide-on-modal " adonis-marker> <script type="text/javascript" data-type="display gpt">googletag.cmd.push(function() { headertag.display('div-gpt-ad-f71c4d0b-78a5-41f9-97a1-d1f11add2de0'); });</script> </div> </div> <div class="hidden-xs"> <div class="subhead">Related Places</div> <ul class="dots gutter-bottom"> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Zamboanga-City">Zamboanga City</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Negros">Negros</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Danao">Danao</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Puerto-Princesa">Puerto Princesa</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Dapitan">Dapitan</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Mindanao">Mindanao</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Toledo-Philippines">Toledo</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Zamboanga-Peninsula">Zamboanga Peninsula</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Bacolod">Bacolod</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Cabanatuan">Cabanatuan</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">By 1925 the only American left in the governor-general’s cabinet was the secretary of public instruction, who was also the lieutenant governor-general. This is one indication of the high priority given to education in U.S. policy. In the initial years of U.S. rule, hundreds of schoolteachers came from the United States. But Filipino teachers were trained so rapidly that by 1927 they <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/constituted" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="constituted">constituted</a> nearly all of the 26,200 teachers in public schools. The school population expanded fivefold in a generation; education consumed half of governmental expenditures at all levels, and educational opportunity in the Philippines was greater than in any other colony in Asia.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">As a consequence of this <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pedagogical" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="pedagogical">pedagogical</a> explosion, literacy doubled to nearly half in the 1930s, and educated Filipinos acquired a common language and a linguistic key to Western civilization. By 1939 some one-fourth of the population could speak English, a larger proportion than for any of the native dialects. Perhaps more important was the new avenue of upward social mobility that education offered. Educational policy was the only successful U.S. effort to establish a sociocultural basis for political democracy.</p><a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/quiz/obscure-olympic-sports" class="test-your-knowledge md-content-module-left grid-md-shrink visible-lg visible-md"> <div class="subhead">Test Your Knowledge</div> <div class="image-wrapper"> <img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922im_/https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/49/190949-118-93B7090B.jpg" alt="A person is shooting with recurve bow on a target during an archery competition. Focus on the targets. archery"/> <div class="title">Obscure Olympic Sports</div> </div> </a><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">American attempts to create equality of economic opportunity were more modest and less successful. In a predominantly agricultural country the pattern of landownership is crucial. The trend toward greater concentration of ownership, which began in the 19th century, continued during the American period, despite some legal barriers. Vast American-owned plantations were forestalled, but legal restrictions had little effect on those politically well-connected Filipinos who were intent on amassing fortunes. 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Owners of mills and large plantations profited most, thus reinforcing the political dominance of the landed elite.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">American preparation of the Philippines for democratic self-government suffered from an <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/inherent" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="inherent">inherent</a> contradiction, perhaps not recognized at the time. Transferring governmental responsibility to those capable of undertaking it was not consistent with building a social and economic base for political democracy. Self-government meant, of necessity, assumption of power by those Filipinos who were already in positions of leadership in society. But those men came for the most part from the landed elite; preservation of their political and economic position was incompatible with equalizing opportunity. Even the expansion of an educated middle class did not necessarily result in a transformation of the pattern of power. Most middle-class aspirants for political leadership adjusted to the values and the practices of the existing power elite.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">Filipino leaders quickly and skillfully utilized the opportunities for self-government that the Americans opened to them. The Filipino political genius was best reflected in an extralegal institution—the political party. The first party, the <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Federalist-Party"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/203519/Federalist-Party">Federal Party</span></a>, was U.S.-backed and stressed cooperation with the overlords, even to the point of statehood for the Philippines. But when openly nationalist appeals were allowed in the 1907 election, the <a name="ref387398" id="ref387398" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Nationalist-Party-political-party-Philippines"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/405778/Nationalist-Party">Nacionalista Party</span></a>, advocating independence, won overwhelmingly. The Federalists survived with a new name, Progressives, and a new platform, ultimate independence after social reform. But neither the Progressives nor their successors in the 1920s, the Democrats, ever gained more than one-third of the seats in the legislature. The Nacionalista Party under the leadership of <a name="ref387400" id="ref387400" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-Quezon"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/487202/Manuel-Quezon">Manuel Quezon</span></a> and <a name="ref387399" id="ref387399" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Sergio-Osmena"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/434010/Sergio-Osmena">Sergio Osmeña</span></a> dominated Philippine politics from 1907 until independence.</p><div class="related-topics md-content-module-right grid-xs-ad-300"> <div class="md-ad gutter-bottom"> <div data-refresh="true" id="div-gpt-ad-4fcecbc6-42cf-4197-beb0-970da2f5df48" data-slot="BOT3" class="google-ad-iframe ui-hide-on-modal " adonis-marker> <script type="text/javascript" data-type="display gpt">googletag.cmd.push(function() { headertag.display('div-gpt-ad-4fcecbc6-42cf-4197-beb0-970da2f5df48'); });</script> </div> </div> <div class="hidden-xs"> <div class="subhead">Related Topics</div> <ul class="dots gutter-bottom"> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/nation-state">nation-state</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Alex-Boncayao-Brigade">Alex Boncayao Brigade</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Kalantiyaw">Code of Kalantiyaw</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/event/Jones-Act-United-States-1916">Jones Act</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/English-language">English language</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-the-Philippines">flag of the Philippines</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Bataan-Death-March-How-many-marched-and-how-many-died-2010788">Bataan Death March: How many marched and how many died?</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Manila-Bay">Battle of Manila Bay</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Wood-Forbes-Mission">Wood–Forbes Mission</a> </li> <li> <a href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/event/Battle-of-Leyte-Gulf">Battle of Leyte Gulf</a> </li> </ul> </div> </div><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">More significant than the competition between the Nacionalistas and their opposition was the continuing rivalry between Quezon and Osmeña. In fact, understanding this personality conflict provides more insight into the realities of prewar Philippine politics than any examination of policy or <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ideology" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="ideology">ideology</a>.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">In 1933 the U.S. Congress passed the <a name="ref387401" id="ref387401" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Hare-Hawes-Cutting-Act"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/255210/Hare-Hawes-Cutting-Act">Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act</span></a>, which set a date for Philippine independence. The act was a fulfillment of the vague pledge in the Jones Act; it was also responsive to the demands of a series of “independence missions” sent to Washington by the Philippine legislature. But this unprecedented transfer of sovereignty was decided upon in the dark days of the <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/243118/Great-Depression">Great Depression</span></a> of the 1930s—and with the help of some <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incongruous" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="incongruous">incongruous</a> allies. The Depression had caused American farm interests to look desperately for relief, and those who suffered real or imaginary hurt from the competition of Philippine products sought to exclude those products. They had already failed in a direct attempt to <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amend" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="amend">amend</a> the tariff on Philippine imports but found that the respectable cloak of the <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/advocacy" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="advocacy">advocacy</a> of independence increased the effectiveness of their efforts. Tied to independence was the end of free entry into American markets of Philippine sugar, coconut oil, rope, and other less important items. That those economic interests were able to accomplish what they did is partly explainable by the fact that their political clout was great compared with that of the small group of American traders and investors in the Philippines.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">The Philippine legislature rejected the Hare-Hawes-Cutting Act, apparently as a result of the Osmeña-Quezon feud, much to the displeasure of American officialdom. But, when Quezon came to Washington the following year to work for a new bill, the same alliance of forces in the U.S. Congress obliged by producing the almost identical <a name="ref387402" id="ref387402" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tydings-McDuffie-Act"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/611449/Tydings-McDuffie-Act">Tydings-McDuffie Act</span></a>. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Endorsed" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="Endorsed">Endorsed</a> by Quezon and accepted with <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alacrity" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="alacrity">alacrity</a> by the Manila legislature, it provided for a 10-year commonwealth during which the U.S. would retain jurisdiction over defense and foreign affairs. Filipinos were to draft their own constitution, subject to the approval of the U.S. president.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">A constitutional convention was quickly elected and a constitution (which bore a strong resemblance to its U.S. model) framed and approved by <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922/https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/plebiscite" class="md-dictionary-link" data-term="plebiscite">plebiscite</a> and by Pres. <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Franklin-D-Roosevelt"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/509263/Franklin-D-Roosevelt">Franklin D. Roosevelt</span></a>. The last governor-general, <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frank-Murphy"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/398197/Frank-Murphy">Frank Murphy</span></a>, became the first high commissioner, with more of a diplomatic than a governing role. The commonwealth was inaugurated on November 15, 1935. The Nacionalista Party patched up its internal quarrels and nominated Quezon for president and Osmeña for vice president. They were elected overwhelmingly.</p><div class="other-media gutter-bottom"><ul><li><figure><span data-id="31122" data-type="image" class="media-overlay-link middle-xs center-xs"><div class="image-wrapper"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922im_/https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/51/38551-004-5535FC93.jpg" alt="Manuel Quezon." data-width="320" data-height="450"><em class="material-icons" data-icon="zoom_in"></em></div></span><figcaption class="text-center"><div class="description"><div class="description-text">Manuel Quezon, first president of the Philippine Commonwealth.</div><div class="credit"><em>EB Inc.</em></div></div></figcaption></figure></li></ul></div><div class="md-content-module-right grid-xs-ad-300"> <div class="md-ad gutter-bottom"> <div data-refresh="true" id="div-gpt-ad-ee70742e-0cfc-4707-8384-153de0ec8828" data-slot="BOT4" class="google-ad-iframe ui-hide-on-modal " adonis-marker> <script type="text/javascript" data-type="display gpt">googletag.cmd.push(function() { headertag.display('div-gpt-ad-ee70742e-0cfc-4707-8384-153de0ec8828'); });</script> </div> </div> </div><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">The commonwealth period was intended to be devoted to preparation for economic and political independence and perfection of democratic institutions. But even before the tragic events of World War II, the transition did not run smoothly.</p></section><section class="gutter-bottom" data-level="2" id="toc23718"><h2 class="h3"><a name="ref387403" id="ref387403" class="idxref"></a>World War II</h2><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">Japanese aggression in China prompted much attention to military preparedness. Nearly one-fourth of the national budget was devoted to defense. Gen. <a name="ref387404" id="ref387404" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Douglas-MacArthur"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/353669/Douglas-MacArthur">Douglas MacArthur</span></a>, retiring as army chief of staff in Washington, was called by President Quezon to direct plans and preparations. Meanwhile, agrarian unrest festered, and leftist political activity grew. Quezon pushed significant reform legislation through the <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/National-Assembly-historical-French-parliament"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/404373/National-Assembly">National Assembly</span></a>, but implementation was feeble, despite the rapid accumulation of power in his hands.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">The Japanese attack of the Philippines on December 8, 1941, came at a time when the U.S. military buildup had hardly begun. Their advance was rapid; before Christmas, Manila was declared an “open city,” while Quezon and Osmeña were evacuated to MacArthur’s headquarters on <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Corregidor-Island"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/138628/Corregidor-Island">Corregidor Island</span></a>. Despite a desire, at one point, to return to Manila in order to surrender, Quezon was persuaded to leave the Philippines in March 1942 on a U.S. submarine; he was never to return. Osmeña also went. Filipino and American forces, under Gen. <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jonathan-M-Wainwright"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/634164/Jonathan-M-Wainwright">Jonathan M. Wainwright</span></a>, surrendered in May. An <a name="ref387405" id="ref387405" class="idxref"></a>Executive Commission made up of more than 30 members of the old Filipino political elite had been cooperating with Japanese military authorities in Manila since January.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">The Executive Commission lasted until September 1943, when it was superseded by an “independent Philippine Republic.” The president, chosen by the Japanese, was <a name="ref387406" id="ref387406" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-P-Laurel"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/332378/Jose-P-Laurel">José Laurel</span></a>, former associate justice of the commonwealth Supreme Court and the only Filipino to hold an honorary degree from <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/topic/University-of-Tokyo"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/598439/University-of-Tokyo">Tokyo Imperial University</span></a>. More than half of the commonwealth Senate and more than one-third of the House served at one time in the Japanese-sponsored regime. Yet collaboration with Japan was neither as willing nor as widespread as elsewhere in Southeast Asia.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">Even before the fall of <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Bataan-Peninsula"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/55722/Bataan-Peninsula">Bataan Peninsula</span></a> to the Japanese in April 1942, guerrilla units were forming throughout the Philippines. Most were led by middle-class officers and were enthusiastically pro-United States; in central Luzon, however, a major force was the Hukbalahap, which, under communist leadership, capitalized on earlier agrarian unrest. Though in a number of instances collaborators secretly assisted guerrillas, many guerrillas in the hills were bitter against those who appeared to benefit from the occupation. The differences between the two groups became an important factor in early postwar politics.</p><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">Soon after the U.S. landings on <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Leyte"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/338447/Leyte">Leyte</span></a> in October 1944, commanded by MacArthur, civil government was returned to the commonwealth, at least in name. Sergio Osmeña, who had become president in exile on the death of Quezon in August, had few resources to deal with the problems at hand, however. Osmeña’s role was complicated by the fact that MacArthur chose to lionize <a name="ref387407" id="ref387407" class="idxref"></a><a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Manuel-Roxas-y-Acuna"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/511166/Manuel-Roxas">Manuel A. Roxas</span></a>, a leading collaborator who had also been in contact with U.S. military intelligence. As president of the Senate, <a class="md-crosslink" href="/web/20170202093922/https://www.britannica.com/place/Roxas"><span property="about" href="https://semantic.britannica.com/accepted_headword/core/511163/Roxas">Roxas</span></a> became, in effect, MacArthur’s candidate for president. Roxas was nominated in January 1946 in a separate convention of the “liberal wing” of the Nacionalista Party, as it was first called. Thus was born the Philippines’ second major political party, the Liberals.</p><div class="other-media gutter-bottom"><ul><li><figure><span data-id="82931" data-type="video" class="media-overlay-link middle-xs center-xs"><div class="image-wrapper"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20170202093922im_/https://media1.britannica.com/eb-media/28/86028-049-237C1EB0.jpg" alt="Gen. Douglas MacArthur and U.S. forces in the Philippines following Japanese occupation of Manila and the Bataan Peninsula, 1944." data-width="320" data-height="240"><em class="md-play material-icons" data-icon="play_circle_outline"></em></div></span><figcaption class="text-center"><div class="description"><div class="description-text">Gen. Douglas MacArthur and U.S. forces in the Philippines following Japanese occupation of Manila …</div></div></figcaption></figure></li></ul></div><p class="md-content-block gutter-bottom">Osmeña, though he had the advantages of incumbency, was old and tired and did not fully use the political tools he possessed. In April Roxas was elected by a narrow margin. 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