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WAR DEPARTMENT
CLASSIFIED MESSAGE CENTER
INCOMING CLEAR MESSAGE
page 2.
From:
CINCAFPAC Tokyo, Japan
Nr:
Z21383
3 March 1946
national sovereignty on incidents connected therewith, and
with full independence only 4 months away.
In my belief,
the United States in its future relationships with the Far
East would have everything to lose and nothing to gain
by not trusting the Filipinos to take adequate action in
the premises.
Technically, you may anticipate the gravest challenge
by the Philippine Judicial System under the guidance of its
Supreme Court and quite possibly by the entire Philippine
Government.
I would also anticipate the possibility of
dissent by our own Supreme Court.
At the close of hostilities, the US Army, which had
arrested and held in custody several thousand collaboration-
ists in the Philippines, turned them and their ultimate
disposition over to the Commonwealth Government when the
latter assumed its civil status. The Commonwealth by
Legislative Act established a peoples court and a chain OF
judicial process to try such cases.
This is now
proceeding. For the United States to reassert its claim
to certain of these individuals would not only reverse its
previous action in yielding them to the Commonwealth, but
would bring up questions of law which could not fail to
result in the greatest possible confusion and friction. I
can see every possible disadvantage in becoming embroiled
in this way and a certain loss of American prestige resulting
therefrom.
MC IN 51663
(3 Mar 46)
UNCLASSIFIED
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