Philperiodicals

Eulogy for General Emilio F. Aguinaldo

The Cabletow (1923 - today) is the monthly publication of the Grand Lodge of the Philippines. In May 1964, it published an article by Emilio P. Virata with a eulogy for General Emilio F. Aguinaldo, a Filipino patriot and a brother mason. Aguinaldo passed away on the 6th of February of that year and, with him, the last protagonist of the Philippine Revolution.  After his death, numerous books and articles depicted Aguinaldo as a Filipino nationalist, praising him as one of the most distinguished figures in Philippine history.  As Virata put it, Aguinaldo was the redeemer, a messianic figure of sorts, and the Philippine-American war was due to a misunderstanding, with democracy being restored gracefully by the US in 1946. Aguinaldo was a political opportunist more than an idealist, and, although after being captured in 1901 he swore allegiance to the US, he remained politically active. Aguinaldo lost against Quezon in the 1935 elections and his anti-Americanism resurfaced during the Second World War, when he collaborated with the Japanese puppet government, –wrongly–hoping that true independence could become finally real. An uncomfortable heroe, Aguinaldo was prosecuted after the war, although he was pardoned and lived comfortably, appearing only a few times in public.

Fecha

1964-05

Fuente

Virata, Emilio P. “Eulogy for General Emilio F. Aguinaldo”, The Cabletow, vol. XXXIX (Issue No. 11) May 1964, pp. 373-374, 393. In Open Access Repository @ UPD.

Relación

Ara, Satochi. “Emilio Aguinaldo under American and Japanese Rule Submission for Independence?” Philippine Studies: Historical & Ethnographic Viewpoints 63, no. 2 (2015): 161–92.

Autoría

Emilio P. Virata

Editor

Item held at University of the Philippines Diliman and University of Antwerp VLIRUOS Rare Periodicals Open Access Repository

Colaborador

Emilio Vivó Capdevila

Materia

Emilio Aguinaldo

Philippine Revolution

The Cabletow