TRIAL OF PUPPET PRESIDENT IN PHILIPPINES
Received Tuesday, 11 a.m. MANILA, Oct. 20. The long delayed trial of Dr. Jose Laurel, Puppet President of the Phiiippines during the Japanese occupation, opened before the People s Court Tribunal today. A Japanese newspaperman, Koji Nakamura, gave evidence that Laurel had embraeed the "Asia for the Asiatics" ideology. The chief defenee counsel, Senor Clarro Recto, who was formerly Laurel's Foreign Minister, asserted that the late President, Senor Ivlanuel Quezon, himself had not rejected that ideology, and had not intended to deliver the Phiiippines to the occidentals when he subseribed to the United Nations Charter.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHRONL19471021.2.33.2
Bibliographic details
Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1947, Page 5
Word Count
101TRIAL OF PUPPET PRESIDENT IN PHILIPPINES Chronicle (Levin), 21 October 1947, Page 5
Using This Item
NZME is the copyright owner for the Chronicle (Levin). You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in