| Location |
RHC |
| Item Call Number |
DS 686.4 M35 |
| Status |
Available |
| Barcode |
14203 |
| International Standard Book Number |
- International Standard Book Number - (hardbound)
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| Language Code |
- Language code of text/sound track or separate title - eng
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| Library Of Congress Call Number |
- Classification number - DS 686.4 M35
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| Main Entry |
- Personal name - Malay, Armando de Jesus,
- Dates associated with a name - 1914-
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| Title Statement |
- Title - Occupied Philippines :
- Remainder of title - the role of Jorge B. Vargas during the Japanese occupation /
- Statement of responsibility, etc. - by Armando J. Malay ; introd. by Teodoro Evangelista
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| Publication, Distribution, Etc. (imprint) |
- Place of publication, distribution, etc. - Manila :
- Name of publisher, distributor, etc. - Filipiniana Book Guild,
- Date of publication, distribution, etc. - 1965.
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| Physical Description |
- Extent - xiii, 304 p. :
- Dimensions - 25 x 17 cm.
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| Series Statement |
- Series statement - Publications of the Filipiniana Book Guild. [v.] 12
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| Summary, Etc. |
- Summary, etc. - Saga of Jorge B. Vargas during the Japanese Occupation of the Philippines. Vargas was President Quezon's right-hand-man and confidante before the war. On his departure for Corregidor, Quezon appointed Vargas mayor of Greater Manila and instructed him to stay, to deal with the Japanese and soften the blow, so to speak. Malay narrates the difficulties faced by Vargas in staying behind and trying to negotiate with the Japanese. After establishing a military administration in Manila, the Japanese demanded that Vargas collaborate, and made him Chairman of the Philippine Executive Commission, which took orders from the Japanese. With the inauguration of the Japanese-sponsored Philippine Republic in October 1943, Vargas was appointed Philippine ambassador to Tokyo; he took up his post in 1944 and stayed on until the end of the war. Malay recounts Vargas' dilemmas and airs his side on the collaboration issue (the book was written in part as a response to Steinberg's "Philippine Collaboration in World War II"). Malay also details the post-war People's Court trials for treason, and Vargas' being amnestied. The author was a well-known and respected journalist who was in Manila during the occupation, and was privy to many of the events he writes about. - Prof. Ricardo T. Jose
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| Language Note |
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| Subject Personal Name |
- Personal name - Vargas, Jorge Bocobo,
- Dates associated with a name - 1890-1980.
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| Subject Geographic Name |
- Geographic name - Philippines
- General subdivision - History
- Chronological subdivision - Japanese occupation, 1942-1945.
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