US Army Letter to Flores Accepting Reconsideration Request from the Pandita Area Guerrillas

13 JAN 1947

This will acknowledge receipt of your letter dated 15 November 1946, to the Honorable Elpidio Quirino, Vice-President of the Republic of the Philippines, which was forwarded to this headquarters through diplomatic channels for necessary action, in which you enclosed additional documents for the reconsideration of the Pandita Area Guerrilla Regiment.

It is the desire of this headquarters to avoid all appearance of arbitrary decisions in the case of claimant guerrilla units. Your request for reconsideration is, therefore, accepted. It must be emphasized, however, that it would be extremely helpful if you were to forward as quickly as possible such additional pertinent documentary evidence as has not been submitted previously and which, you feel, reflects favorably upon your claim. These additional data should be original documents, or photostatic copies of the original documents, or true copies of the original documents, certified by United States Army officers of field grade on duty with the Guerrilla Affairs Division, G-3 Section of this headquarters.

Your request for reconsideration will be placed on file in this headquarters to await appropriate action at the earliest practicable time. You must appreciate that hundreds of claimant guerrilla units are now being initially investigated, and the review of rejected units must necessarily follow them. It is, therefore, suggested, that you defer further inquiry into the status of your reconsideration for at least four months from the date of receipt of this letter, inasmuch as frequent inquiries are neither necessary nor desirable because of the time consumed in superfluous correspondence.

Sincerely yours.

THOMAS J. BROWN
CWO, USA
Ass’t Adj. Gen.