| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
DS 686.2 L3 A38 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14194 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (softbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Laurel, Jose Paciano,
- Dates associated with a name - 1891-1959
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| Title Statement |
- Title - War memoirs of Dr. Jose P. Laurel
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Manila :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Jose P. Laurel Memorial Foundation,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1962.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - viii, 68 p. :
- Other physical details - ill.,
- Dimensions - 26 x 18 cm.
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Memoirs of the president of the Japanese-sponsored Republic of the Philippines, covering the period 1941-1945. These memoirs were written while the author was imprisoned in Sugamo Prison, in Tokyo, held by the Americans as a collaborator with the Japanese. Without notes and paper, Laurel wrote the text in between the printed pages of a book given to him as reading material. Laurel was justice of the Supreme Court in 1941, was appointed Secretary of Justice by Quezon after the war broke out, and was detailed to stay behind in Manila while the Commonwealth Government transferred to Corregidor. Laurel recounts those last days of December 1941, just before the Japanese took over; he details the meetings of ranking Commonwealth officials in January 1942, on how to deal with the Japanese; their decision to work as the Philippine Executive Commission under the Japanese, and conditions under Japanese rules. Laurel devotes much space to the steps taken by the Japanese to grant "independence" to the Philippines in 1943, Laurel's being chosen as president of the Japanese-sponsored republic, and the difficulties he faced in trying to make independence real, as best as he could under Japanese domination. He details the forced evacuation of his government to Baguio, then to Japan, and its formal dissolution at the end of the war. Places the blame on the collaboration issue for the US' failure to adequately defend the Philippines. This, together with Recto's "Three Years of Enemy Occupation," serves as the two major sources explaining the political collaboration issue from within. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Laurel, Jose Paciano,
- Dates associated with a name - 1891-1959.
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| Subject Topical Term |
- Topical term or geographic name as entry element - Presidents
- Geographic subdivision - Philippines
- General subdivision - Biography.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
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