‘I shall return’: 70 years after MacArthur’s triumphant return to the Philippines, history repeats itself
Special to WorldTribune.com “I came through and I shall return.” — Gen. Douglas MacArthur in Australia after being ordered by President Franklin Roosevelt to leave Japanese-occupied Philippines in 1942. By Donald Kirk, East-Asia-Intel.com MANILA — U.S. forces were supposed to be gone from the Philippines for good by 1991 when the U.S. pulled out of […]