1.) Jan. 5, 2015 - This is one version of what JP Laurel did during WWII. It seems to be a justification why he collaborated with the Japanese Imperial Army during the occupation of the Philippines. I found no evidence to refute the claim that Laurel frustrated the Japanese attempts to raise a conscript army of Filipinos. However Benigno Aquino Sr.s KALIBAPI later renamed MAKAPILI ruthlessly and efficiently carried out Japanese policies including the arrest, detention, torture and murder of suspected Filipino & American guerrillas and their supporters. The question Ive asked is why were these oligarch-traitors & collaborators allowed to go back in politics and power after WWII? They should ALL be tried posthumously for treason. They should pay damages for the deaths and suffering during the occupation. Their children and grandchildren should be banned from politics. Final question why the hey did the Allied victors tried, convict and executed Pierre Laval of France, the pro-Nazi French collaborator and Vidkun Quisling, the Norwegian pro-Nazi collaborator while oligarch-traitors like Laurel, Roxas and Aquino plus the 5,000 other collaborators were not only spared prosecution but allowed to enter politics again? This is gross injustice and discrimination. ============================== Proclamation 30 Laurel’s Declaration of War against the U.S. & the U.K. Sept. 22, 1944 lawphil.net/executive/proc/proc_30_1944.html Republic of the Philippines OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Manila By The President of the Republic of the Philippines PROCLAMATION NO. 30 PROCLAIMING THE EXISTENCE OF A STATE OF WAR IN THE PHILIPPINES WHEREAS, the Filipino people, during the whole period of their subjection to alien rule, have unremittingly labored for their freedom and independence and to this end fought two wars and countless resolutions; WHEREAS, upon the attainment by the Philippines of this cherished goal of freedom and independence and on the occasion of the inauguration of the Republic of the Philippines on October 14, 1943, the President appeal to all nations and peoples of the world for amity and goodwill and, to the United States of America especially, pleaded that the Philippines be spared the suffering and destruction incident to the resumption of military operations on our soil; WHEREAS, notwithstanding this appeal, the United States of America and Great Britain have attacked from the air certain parts of the Philippines thereby violating the territorial integrity of the Republic, and causing death or injury to its citizens and destruction or damage to their property; WHEREAS, the Philippines must safeguard its independence and territorial integrity as every self-respecting sovereign state is in honor bound to do; and WHEREAS, the Republic of the Philippines has entered into a Pact of Alliance with Japan, based on mutual respect of sovereignty and territories, to safeguard the territorial integrity and independence of the Philippines. NOW, THEREFORE, I, Jose P. Laurel, President of the Republic of the Philippines, do hereby proclaim that a state of war exists between the Republic of the Philippines and the United States of America and Great Britain, effective September 23, 1944, at 10:00 oclock in the morning. Face to face with the grim realities of war, I earnestly, call upon every Filipino at this momentous hour to show his unswerving loyalty and to give his support to the Government, so that, regardless of the trials and tribulations we are undergoing and those we shall have to suffer in the near future, we may closely and firmly unite to safeguard the free and independent existence of the Philippines. IN WITNESS THEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Republic of the Philippines to be affixed. Done in the City of Manila, this 22nd day of September, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-four, and of the Republic of the Philippines, the first. (Sgd.) JOSE P. LAUREL President of the Republic of the Philippines By the President: (Sgd.) EMILIO ABELLO Executive Secretary ============================== Roxas Is Asked To Explain Stand - Man-To-Man By Harold L. Ickes – Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: Monday, July 22, 1946 Page 18 AN OPEN LETTER TO THE HONORABLE MANUEL A. ROXAS, PRESIDENT, PHILIPPINE REPUBLIC: On June 21, I published a syndicated newspaper column charging collaboration by highly placed Filipinos with the Japanese invaders of the Philippines Islands. I said that you had been one of the principal collaborators. The same day, General Douglas MacArthur undertook to deny the facts that I had revealed. On June 24 you sent me a long radiogram charging that my statements were “completely false.” However, you were careful not to denominate any specific statement as “completely false.” You joined issue on only one “fact.” You said, “Your statement I signed declaration of war completely baseless as inspection of record will show.” In short, you denied what had not been charged. Reiterates Charge My statement read: “When he (Roxas) was taken to Baguio with others of the puppet government he still wore the uniform of a brigadier general of the United States. While wearing that uniform, he supported a declaration of war against the United States. There is a word for this which the military does not seem to understand, at least so far as Roxas is concerned.” I still stand on that statement. Would an “inspection of the record” disprove it? President Truman said on March 16, 1946: “The principle is well established in the Philippines that an act of disloyalty to the United States was an act of disloyalty to the Philippine people.” Holds Questions Justified I (Harold Ickes) now ask a few questions that I believe are justified by what President Truman said: 1. Did you or did you not, President Roxas, support a declaration of war against the United States while wearing the uniform of a brigadier general in the Army of the United States? 2. Did you or did you not help to write the constitution of the Japanese-controlled puppet government? 3. Were you, or were you not an adviser of Laurel, the puppet president? 4. Is it not true that as a prisoner of war, you could not have been compelled to contribute any services to the puppet government? 5. How much and what percentage of the food that you collected went to the “hungry children and mothers whose pleas and entreaties moved you to enter the Japanese-inspired government?” How much went to the Japanese? Unlike Norwegians’ Stand In your inaugural address you defended your fellow-collaborators on the ground that they had “committed mental error and should be forgiven.” That was not the attitude of the Norwegians toward their Quisling. It has not been the attitude of the loyalists toward the traitors in Holland, France, Belgium and other countries. I am at a loss to comprehend such solicitude. I find it equally difficult to understand the thought processes of Ambassador McNutt, who once defined collaboration as “a state of mind.” Collaboration is, of course, “a state of mind” or a “mental error,” as Mr. McNutt and you respectively phrase it, but it also is an act of treason. The Philippine people ought to match the sincerity of the United States in winning for them independence with like sincerity. They should mete out just punishment to those persons who served the Japanese enemy of the Philippines and the United States. Cites Tañada’s Appointment To do less would be to stain their national honor at the very moment that they assume it. It is a strange coincidence, President (Manuel A.) Roxas that Chief Prosecutor (Lorenzo) Tañada, who compiled the list of collaborationist suspects to be tried, and who conveniently failed to include you, has become the solicitor general in your administration. The Associated Press reports that you are now being urged by Mr. Tañada to proclaim a general amnesty for all collaborationist suspects. Your inaugural address indicates that you are inclined to do so. The American people would not understand such action. Your radiogram to me solicits “my earnest support . . .” This I cannot give until you have cleared your record. It is my conviction that you collaborated deliberately and extensively with the enemy. Says He Gave Honor, Too If the Japanese had won the war, you would have been in a position to claim from them what you so quickly asserted to be your right when America was victorious. As a prisoner of war in uniform, all that you were required to give the Japanese were your name, rank and serial number. In addition, you gave your honor, along with aid and comfort to the enemy. I believe with you that your “war record speaks for itself.” Until the time of Bataan and Corregidor, it was a public record that is a credit to you and to the uniform that you wore. Subsequent to Bataan and Corregidor you have no public record. But there is a record in the files of the Department of Justice know n as the Hutchinson Report. I call upon the attorney general to make this record available to all who may care to see it. I believe that this report and the records in possession of the Counter Intelligence Corps, United States Army, if not destroyed, will support my charges. I invite you, President Roxas, to join with me in asking for the publication of these official reports. ----------------- Mr. Ickes’ next column will appear on Wednesday 07/24/46 ROXAS MAY GET AMNESTY PLAN Proposal Forecast In Behalf Of Laurel And Cabinet Date: Dec 29, 1946
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