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Died. Emil Hacha, 73, collaborationist President of Czechoslovakia after the Nazi-forced resignation of Edward Benes in 1938, puppet president of the Protectorate of Bohemia-Moravia during the German occupation, No. Ι on the Czech list of accused traitors; in a Prague prison hospital...
...great struggle in China between three main groups, although not as acute now perhaps as it was last fall-I think we may be around the corner. First is a group of Chinese who are completely disillusioned regarding the white man. Some of them are in the Japanese puppet governments. They do not consider themselves traitors. They consider themselves the hard-headed patriots and Chiang a misguided fool for trusting the West...
Manuel Roxas (pronounced roe-hoss) stayed, was soon captured by the Japs in Mindanao. Then began a long campaign to make him a puppet ruler. Roxas, determined to carry on guerrilla activities, warded off the first Jap blandishments by feigning illness (he had lost 48 Ibs.). When Japs came to call at his Manila home, he took fever shots, bounded up & down steps to make himself pant and sweat. Finally, Premier Tojo sent his personal physician to treat Manuel Roxas; eventually Roxas found his name on a Jap-appointed commission to draft a Philippine constitution...
...only member of the commission who never cashed the 10,000-peso check which the Japs sent as an honorarium. (He says the check was burned with other papers when his house was destroyed in the battle for Manila.) He was appointed to the cabinet of puppet President Jose Laurel, but did not attend its meetings. U.S. officers who stayed behind during the occupation give Manuel Roxas the highest rating. Said one: "He was the overall spiritual leader of the guerrillas." Many Filipinos idolize him the way they once did Manuel Quezon...
Last week Tass, official Soviet news agency, reported that Peter Grozja, Russia's puppet Premier of Rumania, had called for the formation of a Soviet-sponsored league of Danubian states (presumably Rumania, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Hungary, Austria and Czechoslovakia...