Word: kalibapi
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...Memories. In his bare little office in Tacloban, small, silent President Sergio Osmeña toiled at the multiple tasks of the new Government. He moved with tolerance and caution. After Corregidor's surrender, thousands of Filipinos had accepted Japanese "Kalibapi cards" and joined Japanese "neighborhood associations," simply to go on living and eating. But the Filipinos wanted no head-shavings or witch hunts. By last week 140 suspected collaborators were imprisoned. But Sergio Osmeña wanted only major offenders; 60 small fry suspects had already been paroled...
...Japs had established a Philippine totalitarian party, the Kalibapi. They had collected some unquestionably loyal quislings, headed by Puppet President José P. Laurel, a former Philippine Supreme Court Justice. At his inaugural last week, a 21-gun salute rattled over the capital...