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COLONEL C. P. ROMULO, formerly a publisher in Manila, now aide-de-camp to General MacArthur, has reported in the New York Herald-Tribune of July 17 that the Japanese have destroyed by fire the Library of the Philippines at Manila. According to Colonel Romulo, the aim of this vandalism is to obliterate all reference to the United States and Great Britain and anything savouring of Anglo-Saxon culture and democracy. With this aim in view, the occupying forces have formed a Text-book Board comprising seven Japanese and three Filipinos, which is expected to see that no reference to the above countries or culture shall be available in schools. Colonel Romulo was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for 1941 for his interpretative articles on Japanese aims. It will be remembered that university buildings in Manila escaped damage during the attack on Manila (NATURE, July 4, p. 20), and it would appear that the destruction of the Library referred to above occurred after the Japanese occupation.
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Library of the Philippines. Nature 150, 230 (1942). https://doi.org/10.1038/150230d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/150230d0