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Leon Ma. Guerrero

Leon Ma. Guerrero

(March 24, 1915 — June 24, 1982). Lawyer, journalist and diplomat. Served in USAFFE (later, USFIP) in the press relations staff, then assigned to Corregidor; upon surrender of USFIP and release from internment, served as a technical assistant to Jorge B. Vargas in the Philippine Executive Commission, then resumed broadcasting (station PIAM) under the same pseudonym he had used prior to the Japanese Occupation: Ignacio Javier. He then joined the diplomatic service of the Second Republic of the Philippines, assigned to the Philippine embassy in Tokyo under Jorge B. Vargas, ambassador.
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29th March 1945

The foreign office has asked for the return of all diplomatic travel permits. They are to be curtailed.

Waiting for a train connection I sat between a soldier and an aged Japanese couple, farmers from the look of them. It was getting late end the three unpacked their meals for the evening. The farmers had an elaborate dinner of fried fish cutlets. The soldier had three balls of cold rice.