Report of meetings : February 10, 1949
Report of meetings : February 10, 1949
For guest speaker we had Attorney Marcial Lichauco, and when we call him attorney, it is merely because he happens to be the number one adviser of the government on corporation deadlocks. Famous for his brilliance and a dazzling American wife be-sides, the guest speaker naturally did not surprise anyone when he spoke on, of all things, Fil-American relationships. As every Rotarian head agreed: heck! the man oughta know! and take it from us he did! For one thing, the whole theme was based on a premise of sweet understanding, and because we remember having heard from Marcial himself that the many number of years that he had been married, his wife has never lost her temper on him, we accepted his expositions for all that their optimistic colors were worth. In a nutshell: time, perseverance and patience are the three cardinal prerequisites towards a finer under- standing between the two peoples. No half-way measures, give all or bust, for in half- ways lie the dangerous currents. It is not entirely the fault of the Americans that they do not know us as well as they should, be- cause after all we do not make enough efforts to help them know us. And to clinch the point: there is always the great common bond of this thing called democracy, re-member?
For guest speaker we had Attorney Marcial Lichauco, and when we call him attorney, it is merely because he happens to be the number one adviser of the government on corporation deadlocks. Famous for his brilliance and a dazzling American wife be-sides, the guest speaker naturally did not surprise anyone when he spoke on, of all things, Fil-American relationships. As every Rotarian head agreed: heck! the man oughta know! and take it from us he did! For one thing, the whole theme was based on a premise of sweet understanding, and because we remember having heard from Marcial himself that the many number of years that he had been married, his wife has never lost her temper on him, we accepted his expositions for all that their optimistic colors were worth. In a nutshell: time, perseverance and patience are the three cardinal prerequisites towards a finer under- standing between the two peoples. No half-way measures, give all or bust, for in half- ways lie the dangerous currents. It is not entirely the fault of the Americans that they do not know us as well as they should, be- cause after all we do not make enough efforts to help them know us. And to clinch the point: there is always the great common bond of this thing called democracy, re-member?