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...puppet president of Japan's Republic of the Philippines, squat, bespectacled Jose P. Laurel lived in uneasy luxury. Peasant-born and Yale-educated, he occupied Manila's ornate Malacanan Palace, once the home of Manuel Quezon. He smoked special cigars with his name printed on the band. After guerrillas wounded him while he was golfing at the Wack Wack Country Club, he was provided with an armed guard of 600 men. In return for this, José Laurel-who had been a respected Manila attorney and a member of the Philippine Supreme Court -did the bidding...
When U.S. tropps advanced in northern Luzon, the Japanese bundled him off to Tokyo in an airplane, allowed him to set up a "government in exile." As the months passed, many a Filipino guessed that a U.S. bomb had ended his career. But last week steaming, war-shattered Manila heard news of him again. Radio Tokyo blandly announced that President Laurel had decided "in view of Japan's capitulation" to dissolve his government...
...Soon, Manila guessed, José Laurel would be returning to his native land-in handcuffs...
...Ages. MacArthur spent his last days in Manila putting the finishing touches to the great performance in which he would play the leading part. He made sure that he would be accompanied, at the final surrender ceremony, by high officers who had been with him in the darkest Philippine days. Their presence, and that of the old West Virginia, temporarily sunk by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, would not be lost on the Japs...
General Douglas MacArthur got an honorary Doctor of Laws from Manila's University of Santo Tomas, whose rector acclaimed him "greater than Alexander the Great or Napoleon, man of destiny and savior of Christian civilization...