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...election proves that when the people feel a change is necessary, it can and will take place peacefully." And General Campo spoke for many of his countrymen in stating proudly: "I'd say that the good state of peace and order indicates the growing political maturity of the Filipino people...
...Sundays) that is twice the load of ordinary Penn State students. In the Philippines, they will mainly teach elementary science, serve as models of spoken English. But to prepare, they are tackling everything from Philippine history, culture and economics to family habits and sex mores (advice from one Filipino lecturer: "No touch.")-plus first aid, nutrition, U.S. history and world politics. Said one awed Penn State professor: 'I wish we had a whole university with folks like this. They're pushing the life out of us to get started...
Addressing Filipino lawmakers later in the week, MacArthur indicated that he was still of the same mind. The failure of the United Nations forces to win the Korean war was "a major disaster for the free world," he said. "With victory within our grasp and without the use of the atom bomb, which we needed no more then than against Japan, we failed to see it through. Had we done so, we would have destroyed Red China's capability of waging modern war for generations to come...
...winter allowed nosy journalists to visit the Helvetia plantation. Before they arrived, the Cubans were transferred to nearby La Suiza; they were brought back as soon as the visitors left. The recruits got rugged training in jungle, commando and night fighting techniques from a dozen U.S. experts and one Filipino instructor. They learned to use the most modern U.S. weapons-bazookas, recoilless cannon, machine guns. So strict was security that only a few officer B-26 pilots were allowed to visit nearby towns; infantry recruits were confined to camp. Incoming mail was addressed to an A.P.O. number; outgoing mail, heavily...
...behind PACD is Ramon P. Binamira, 33, who while still at niversity of the Southern Philippines law school organized 30,000 Filipino students into a poll-watching corps whose vigilance contributed notably to the 1953 clean election of the Philippines' late beloved President Ramon Magsaysay. Once in office, Magsaysay wanted to give Binamira a Cabinet post, but he decided instead to live a while among the barrio people, who constitute the submerged 70% of the Filipino population...