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...Filipino leaders, important as they are, whose impending fate disturbed the U.S. It was the Filipino people. Will they hold out against the brutalities-or, more likely, the blandishments-of their Japanese conquerors? That was a question which could not be answered off the cuff...
...Filipino Army, trained by General MacArthur and led by its own officers, has put up a magnificent fight against the Jap invaders. Said Joaquin Miguel ("Mike") Elizalde, Resident Commissioner for the Philippines in the U.S.: "We will continue to fight for our native soil, foot by foot, on whatever fronts are necessary." But the Filipino Army, with MacArthur's USAFFE, is virtually defeated...
...Japs try to vichyate the Filipinos, a counterpart of Vichy's Marshal Pétain might be found. There is, for instance, 72-year-old General Emilio Aguinaldo, national Filipino hero who led a bloody insurrection against the U.S. army of occupation in 1899. Erect, small, Prussian-haired General Aguinaldo bears no love for Manuel Quezon, has more than once had reason to accuse his people of ingratitude. Said General Aguinaldo, just a year ago: "The Japanese have great respect for the Filipino people and much sympathy...
...Pearl Harbor, his decisive slices into the Philippines' supply line at Wake and Guam. From then on it was a desperate, stubborn, downhill retreat before a foe of overwhelming numbers. The Jap admitted to the folks back home that his own losses were "colossal," that U.S. and Filipino troops fought "like demons." But he had command...
...night, along all the fronts, the battle went on. The Jap came upon his own parties, fired on them by mistake. Probably U.S. defenders did too, but more rarely because the Nip had the initiative, had to keep moving. On the northern front pious Filipino troops identified themselves at night by shouting "Adios Ko" (God be with you). The Jap caught on and echoed the password, but his accent was wrong and his shout brought destruction from Filipino rifles...