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Last week the Spanish Falange, in a move that might have been intended to influence Spanish Filipinos like polo-playing, society-loving Mike Elizalde, announced that in the new Axis World Order the Philippines were to be returned to Spain. Mike Elizalde broadcast by short wave to Manila that U.S. help...
...faces a new world in which his character will be tested. Before the enemy took Manila, Japanese bombers scattered leaflets calling the U.S. an oppressor. Presumably these are ,now delivered door-to-door, telling that now at last the white man is being driven from Asia, reciting incidents, whether true or false, of Filipinos being barred from Americans' clubs, promising that Japanese armies will get out of China and that after Japanese victory all Asiatics will enjoy the Orient...
...Japanese also announced that they had appointed as mayor of captive Manila a Filipino big shot: swart, well-educated, luxury-loving Jorge Vargas, long one of President Quezon's right-hand men. Whether this was the first step in the establishment of a Philippine equivalent of a Pétain Government, it was too early to say. For it remains to be seen whether after 44 years of American government Filipino civilians will feel as capable of maintaining the fight for their freedom as Filipinos have so far proved in the army of General MacArthur...
...chief base was the broad, well-docked harbor of Davao, 600 miles south of Manila. The U.S. defense force in Davao, a thin little group set there by a penny-wise and pound-foolish nation, never had a chance when the Japanese landed in the second week of the war. Since then the Jap has made Davao his own. Last week a flight of U.S. heavy bombers, probably operating from one of the Dutch bases, dropped in at Davao, saw the Allies' worst fears spelled out in ships off the coast...
...least 75 U.S. foreign correspondents have been silenced since Dec. 7 by arrest, capture and siege. Besides about three dozen held in Axis countries who may later be exchanged, there was last week a lost battalion of 22 correspondents in the Philippines who vanished two days before Manila's fall. Presumably they were with General MacArthur's forces on Bataan Peninsula. Only A.P.'s Clark Lee got out a brief dispatch-about three soldiers who escaped capture by playing dead. His story was relayed by Naval radio. Like MacArthur's bare communiqués, it said...