Have a good plan, execute it violently, and do it today.

While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a thought, the new situation did urgently demand a drastic revision of strategic planning if our political aim was to defeat this new enemy as we had defeated the old.

I have returned. By the grace of Almighty God, our forces stand again on Philippine soil.

Believe me, sir, never a night goes by, be I ever so tired, but I read the Word of God before I go to bed.

I see that the flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.

In this situation, it becomes vital that our own country orient its policies in consonance with this basic evolutionary condition rather than pursue a course blind to the reality that the colonial era is now past and the Asian peoples covet the right to shape their own free destiny. What they seek now is friendly guidance, understanding, and support - not imperious direction - the dignity of equality and not the shame of subjugation.

In my dreams I hear again the crash of guns, the rattle of musketry, the strange, mournful mutter of the battlefield.