SEVENTY-NINE years ago, on Oct. 24, 1945, the United Nations was born after a devastating World War, the second in the history of mankind.
There is a famous story on its birth that I thought may have been apocryphal, until I actually read the primary source: 'Sen. Warren Austin of the US delegation was chairman of the committee designing the official seal. A proposed design was sent round to all heads of delegations while we were still in San Francisco. When I saw it, I promptly went to see Senator Austin to complain.
The White Russians, numbering around 5,500, were pro-Czarist Russians who fled the communist Bolshevik Revolution in 1917 to Shanghai, China, only to find themselves endangered by the establishment of the communist People's Republic of China in 1949. They were housed in Tubabao island, Guiuan, Eastern Samar, for three years, and when Quirino visited them, 'he had the fences taken down to make the people feel that they are not prisoners here, but they were free.
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