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...year ago today," he said, "the dimming lights of Bataan's forlorn hope fluttered and died. . . ... Our flag lies crumpled, its proud pinions spat upon in the gutter; the wrecks of what were once our men and women groan and sweat in prison toil; our faithful Filipino wards, 16,000,000 souls, gasp in slavery...
From Washington last week, ailing, exiled Philippine President Manuel Quezon sent his countrymen advice not to worry if they had to yield their property to the Japs. Quezon proclaimed Filipino adherence to a United Nations declaration pledging the return of all looted property in Axis-conquered countries to the rightful owners...
...Japanese ability of self deception has not been dulled. Last week Domei flooded Argentine editors with accounts of the first anniversary of Japanese occupation of the Philippines. The Filipino quisling, Jorge B. Vargas, chief of the Civil Administration of the islands, steered another Japanese train over a verbal crater. Said he: "One year has passed like a dream. . . . Manila is not what it was. Not only does it display its crown of metropolis; it also is the market place and vitalizer of the Philippines, reuniting constituent qualities of its idiosyncracy. It is this spiritual idiosyncracy which constitutes the basis...
...advocating a "uniform system of education for Japan, Korea, 'Manchukuo' and North China" and "Japanese as the language of East Asia." This language program is already in force in the Philippines, though it lags due to a shortage of instructors who can speak both Japanese and Filipino...
...President observed, on a radio broadcast with Philippine President Manuel Quezon and Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho, the seventh anniversary of the Philippine Commonwealth. Said Manuel Quezon: "The story of American-Filipino cooperation is something that every citizen of the United States ought to know and take pride...