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Jose P. Laurel, formally declared war on the United States
and Great Britain.
In his report, Mr. Hut chinson lists a number of
prominent collaborationists, both political and economic.
He points out that in order to try the collaborationists
the Philippine Congress has created a Peoples Court, which
is composed of fifteen judges who sit either en banc or in
five groups of three. The court may sit anywhere in the
Islands and has jurisdiction over all offenses against the
national security committed between December 8, 1941, and
September 2, 1945. The judges were appointed from among
the judges of existing courts, the Securities and Exchange
Commission, and the Public Service Commission. No collabora-
tionist, or person who held office during the Japanese
occupation, was eligible. The judges have all been appointed,
as have twenty-three prosecutors and forty agents to assist
the prosecutors. All cases must be filed by March 25, 1946,
and to date 6,203 cases have been so filed. Five minor cases
involving undercover activities have been completed. All
defendants were convicted, one on a plea of guilty. Two of
the cases are pending on appeal.
Mr. Hut chinson has found that the present method of
handling collaborationist cases is bogging down due to (1)
the fact that the Army erred in turning the entire problem
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