The Social Strata of a City Called “Manila”
Manila is the freewheeling, overpopulated somewhat dangerous capital of the Philippines. She’s grown up accustomed to the doting, if somewhat overprotective, treatment of her paternalistic foster dad (in this case, the good old US of A). Up to the Sixties, she came across like the one with a bright future ahead of her, earning straight A’s and Brownie points from the international community. Daddy’