January 6 in diaries

Diary in focus:

Tomas Confesor (1891-1951), lawyer, legislator, constitutional convention delegate, governor of Iloilo, resistance leader. He wrote a famous letter on his refusal to collaborate with the Japanese. The diary covers his escape to Leyte to join Allied forces in 1945.

Here he is, on the tenth day of his escape, in Marinduque, January 6, 1945:

I am about to finish “So Little Time” a 510-page book by J.P. Marquand. I spend the whole day reading the book.

Marinduque was invaded last Wednesday, the radio announces today. Where is Gen. MacArthur going? Why has he not landed yet in Panay?

Now I feel impatient that I’m going to Leyte!

What’s going on in Panay is worrying me now.

For the last two days, American planes have continuously been humming over us. Today they have been humming more actively. Has another landing been effected?

I feel confident, however, that things have adjusted themselves harmoniously in Panay.

What would have had happened had I not come here?

Today in history:

1973: Dante Vizmanos.

Ferdinand E. Marcos, 1970, 1971, 1972 and 1973

1946: Jorge Vargas

1945: Raymond Leyerly, Anne Louise Goldthorpe, Carl Rice, in UST; Leon Ma. Guerrero in Tokyo; Charles Statler on USS Essex; Gen. Basilio Valdes in Leyte.

1942: You will find the January 6, 1942 entries in our compilation, January 1942: WW2PH 80 Years After along with documents and photos.

1932: Marcial Lichauco with the OsRox Mission.

1901: Ernest Dieball in Catanduanes, William Wilhelm.

1899: Albert Welch, John Asendorf, John Milsaps in Manila.

1884: Josè Rizal in Madrid.