THE PHILIPPINES: Toast Trouble

President Manuel Quezon of the Philippine Commonwealth, junketing in Europe, has not been in Manila since U. S. High Commissioner Paul Vories McNutt arrived there for duty last month. By last week it was already beginning to appear that the 7.091 Philippine Islands might not be big enough for the peppery mestizo politico and the cotton-topped political Adonis from Indiana.

Manuel Quezon, who was not consulted about Mr. McNutt's appointment last February (TIME. March 1). and who has made no secret of his irritation with U. S. "interference" in the Commonwealth's administration, has...

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