MAURO GIA SAMONTE

The question was first prompted in me by an incident I gathered from a book by the late former vice president Salvador Laurel, A Child’s Footnote to History. The author cites the brief conversation President Jose P. Laurel had with the leader of the American troops sent by General Douglas MacArthur to arrest him in his hotel suite in Nara City, Japan in 1945:

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