"As might be expected, the Hong Kong Junta did not die out at once. The spirit which had given vitality and strength to the Junta lived on for a few more years among the few who kept right on hoping even after it was no longer reasonable to hope that the United States would leave the Filipinos to themselves to work out their own destiny as a nation. Their fierce pride in being Filipinos led them to the conviction that a sense of dignity was not possible under foreign domination. To them it was simply unthinkable that a Filipino could still be a Filipino and not be free. Rather than submit anew to alien domination, they chose the life of exile in foreign cities where they could at least walk in dignity which freedom alone could make possible. They lived their own lonely lives of exile, often sustained only by their fierce pride in being Filipinos first and last."

Author: S.V. Epistola
ISBN/ISSN: 971-542-107-5
Category: Social Sciences; History
Copyright: 1996;1998
Pages: 176pp
Size: 6x9
Type: PB/BP