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_aDS 686 _b.R245 1946 v.6 |
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_aRecto, Claro M. _939132 |
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_aThree years of enemy occupation : the issue of political collaboration in the Philippines / _cby Claro M. Recto. |
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_aManila, Philippines : _bPeople's Publishers, 1946, _c[1946]. |
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_axv, 185 pages _c22 cm. |
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_atext _2rdacontent |
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_avolume _2rdacarrier |
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520 | _a and in the mass of surviving official or personal documents still in private hands that will form part of the heritage of subsequent investigators. All the facts presented here are only such facts as were and still are accessible to any ordinary private citizen literate enough to notice and recall them or interested enough to check them up if he is so disposed. It is the author's conviction that even with these facts alone as they are, which are available to all, it is sufficient to understand the collaboration question and be intelligent about it without necessarily aspiring to deify or crucify any fellow citizen, whatever the moral value of such an aspiration. The issue of political collaboration under the Japanese regime is the problem of recognizing and establishing a substantial basis on which Filipino heroes without apology to anyone in the world. The Filipinos stand or fall on what they themselves did when the wolves were around, so God help them. | ||
520 | _aThe material used in this account does not pretend to include facts privy to the chief actors in the story of Philippine collaboration. This is neither the time nor the occasion to expect them. It remains to these actors individually to disclose them according as they are afforded the opportunity--at their trials or in their memoirs | ||
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_aConstantino, Renato _934646 |
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