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...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...
...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...
There were, in fact, a few hints that Marshal Pétain might like to backtrack on collaboration, if he had the chance. But if the old Marshal was any less determined to make France a fascist-style totalitarian state, he did not say so. Instead, he said: "I do not want for my country either Marxism or liberal capitalism. The new order which is about to assume its place cannot be founded on anything but a severe internal order...
...Bournat had kept the islands alive since France fell, dispensing a $60,000 monthly credit wangled from frozen Vichy funds to feed the one-third of the islands' population on chÓmage (relief). But faithful to Vichy and Marshal Pétain, De Bournat had defied the pro-De Gaulle Societe des Anciens Combattants, amused or confused the islands' totally Aryan population by faithfully publishing Vichy's anti-Jewish decrees, tried to organize a Vichy "Patriotic Youth" movement while 150 of St. Pierre's sons were slipping away to join De Gaullists in Canada. Crowds...
...noised abroad that Marshal Henri Philippe Pétain had resigned, leaving Vichy to wily Vice Premier Jean François Darlan, that German troops were already sluicing through France toward Spain, northwest Africa, and the western relief of Axis Libyan forces...