Quislings Failed to Sway
Loyalty of Filip inos I
By RAY CRONIN
(Chief of he Former.. Associated
Press Philippines Bureau)
In all the time the Japanese
army has been in control of the
Philippines its top accomplish
ment has been establishment of
a Quisling government without
popular support.
Its failures have been numer
ous.
Reliable and recent information
army and its puppet collaborators
never gained any wide coopera
tion.
The Filipinos, who attained the
highest standard of living in the
Orient under the American flag,
seem to have adhered firmly to
their original belief that when
Japan says “Asia for Asiatics”
she really means “Asia for Nin
pon.” 1
The Quislings, however, were
such willing puppets that the
Japanese used them to set up the
Fih:nCalled/ePUbliC- Tose Laurel
Filip mo atomey with pro-Japan
ese leanings dating back many
years, became president.
The Filipino masses, jealous
of their democratic rights espe
cially the ballot, under the Amer
ican flag, resented it bitterly but
bided heir time, awaiting their
day of liberation.
Americans who know the Fili
pinos well believe some men in
the puppet government are not
Quislings; that they are there for
a definite purpose, and that it is
not a purpose which will serve
Japan.
When the late President Man
uel L. Quezon and U. S. High
Commissioner Francis B. Sayre
left Manila they placed Jorge B.
Vargas, the presidential secre
tary, in charge. Surprisingly, the
Japs continued him as head of
their executive commission.
Vargas always seemed pro
American. I knew him well. Many
believe that Vargas changed his
coat. I don’t think so. I believe
he was handed a hot potato and
that he juggled i as best he could.
No. 1 puppet was Laurel. Re
JOSE LAUREL
. . . Philippine's No. 1 Puppet
cently I learned that he made
desperate efforts to convince the
Filipinos they should support Ja
pan against the returning Amer
icans. He has boosted the strength
of the Philippine Constabulary,
it is possible the Japanese will
use these Filipino soldiers now,
willing or unwilling. With Jap
anese guns at |heir backs the
constabularymen, shoved up
front, would have little choice.
Apparently, Benigno Aquino,
speaker of the puppet national
assembly, is really on the Japan
ese side. Reliable reports say he
was running about the country
making anti-American speeches
during the early months of the
occupation.
Also in the puppet setup is
Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo, aged in
surrection leader. While Bataan
and Corregidor were holding out
against the Japanese, Aguinaldo
was on the radio telling Ameri
can and Filipino soldiers to sur
render because there was no hope
for them. The general, an old
man now, has few followers
among Filipinos generally.
Pio Duran, Benigno Ramos, and
Jose Laurel, Jr., stand high in
puppet ranks. With young Lau
rel it is a “like father like son”
proposition.
Duran ran for the lower house
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of the National Assembly about
1938 on a pro-Japanese ticket.
Bamos, former chief of the
radical,, revolution - minded Sak
dalistas also was a prewar pro
Japanese. Three years before the
war he was collecting money from
his followers on the pretext of
registering their names in Tokyo
so they would be safe when the
Japanese army arrived.
I know definitely that certain
leading Filipinos in Manila have
this one hope—that there will be
no general amnesty when the
American re-conquest is com
plete: that courts martial be nam
ed to ferret-olu the real Quis
lings and deal with them accord
ingly.
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not be made such by judicial ac
tion, the Associated Press said
today, in asking the Supreme
Court to reverse a lower court
ruling.
The lower court uled that AP
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and submitted a bried in appeal
to the decision by the special fed
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southern district of New York.
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should atttempt to do, as long as
any alternative exists.
The appeal is he lastest devel
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