Quezon got along with the first two United Stated high commissioners, Frank Murphy and Paul V McNutt. The third high commissioner, however, Francis B. Sayre, didn't sympathize with Quezon's one-man rule and disagreed with many of his plans. Quezon, on the other hand, disliked Sayre's moralistic attitude and tride to bypass him by dealing directly with President Roosevelt. Sayre and Quezon clashed on the eve of WW2, and were hardly on speaking terms.
All the plans that the Commonwealth had started, however-as well as the disagreements between Sayre and Quezon, and between MacArthur and Ouezon-were abruptly shaken by the outbreak of war in the Pacific in December 1941.