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...January of 1953, a Filipino girl studying social work under the exchange plan at a New England college, married an American citizen. The young bride applied for resident alien status, which usually accompanies marriage to a citizen. But in her case, it was not a matter of merely filling out forms; the girl, despite pregnancy, had to return to the Philippines at her own expense in order to qualify for residence. More simply, she had to go so she could stay...
...point was this: "The people have spoken and have overwhelmingly elected President Magsaysay. It is for us to accept their verdict . . . The civil war conditions in our country must now cease and justice must reign supreme ... I am a Filipino first and last." Taruc and his eight young Tommy-gun-toting bodyguards melted back into the jungle, and the next day every paper in Manila ran his appeal...
...Magsaysay is my guy!" Filipino voters had shouted during the election campaign. Last week, grinning like a schoolboy and clasping his hands together in the traditional greeting of the prize ring, "the Guy" (as Filipinos have come to call Ramon Magsaysay) stood triumphantly in the broiling sun of Manila's waterfront park waiting to be inaugurated as the third President of the Philippines Republic. A crowd of more than 200,000 greeted him as he drove up with outgoing President Elpidio Quirino in the official black bulletproof Cadillac. The two stepped out and stood in silence as a band...
...Time for Commas. Meanwhile, the new President had begun to perform the chores of his new office with characteristic whirlwind energy-swearing in new Cabinet ministers (mostly old pols), mobilizing advisers both American and Filipino (a much higher grade of men) and firing orders like a drill sergeant...
...offensive power of the Air Force in the Philippines crippled. Some matters Historian Morton resolves plainly and bluntly. The Philippine army, constituting more than half of MacArthur's 140,000-man command, was inadequately trained and scantily equipped. Though they sometimes fought gallantly, the green Filipino troops all too often panicked and ran. Nonetheless, all troops fought well enough to bring the Japanese to a dead stop on Bataan in the last week of February 1942. One high-ranking Japanese officer later admitted that a U.S. counterattack could have pushed through the Japanese lines and retaken Manila...