PHILIPPINE CABINET SECRETARIES IN 1941
* Mr. Benigno S. Aquino, Sr. was Secretary of the Department of Agriculture in 1941. * The Department of National Defense (DND) had three secretaries in 1941. Mr. Teofilo L. Sison, the first DND Secretary, served from Nov. 1, 1939 to July 15, 1941. There was no DND Secretary from July 16, 1941 to December 10, 1941. On December 11-22, 1941, Mr. Jorge B. Vargas was appointed DND Secretary. He was succeeded by Mr. Basilio J. Valdes, who served as DND Secretary from December 23, 1941 to February 6, 1945.
* The Department of Education, then called the Bureau of Education under the Department of Public Instruction, was under American rule. While all other departments were "Filipinized," the US held on to the Department of Public Instruction.
* There was no Department of Health then. It was called the Bureau of Health, a bureau under the Department of Public Instruction, which was headed by an American.
In December 1941, Douglas MacArthur held the rank of Field Marshal of the Philippines.
MacArthur
This depends on which invasion of the Philippines is being questioned here, the one in 1941 or in 1945.
The Philippines.
On December 24, 1941, Wake Island was conquered by Japanese forces. On December 25, 1941, Hong Kong surrendered to the Japanese.
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Cabinet Secretaries
The Cabinet secretaries head the departments of which they are the secretaries.
The Cabinet secretaries head the departments of which they are the secretaries.
Philippine department secretaries are assisted by their undersecretaries.
labor
A Cabinet
chief justice
The president appoints the secretaries, and the senate approves them.
Parliamentary Secretaries
cabinet