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Lacey and other U.S. officials were worried by Magsaysay's open and unabashed exploitation of the friendship, but not Magsaysay. ''What do you know about Filipinos?'' he would say. "I tell you, my people like Americans, and they like to see me with Americans." In spite of a Filipino law which forbids foreigners to contribute to election campaigns. U.S. business interests in the islands anted up some $250.000 at a time when Magsaysay's Nationalist Party was seriously short of funds. On election day. 25 U.S. officers were sprinkled around polling areas by Major...
...Filipinos had a chance to vote their minds without fear of revenge or having their votes disqualified. The Filipinos made up their own minds. No man since the great Filipino patriot. Jose Rizal, has so captured the Filipino fancy and fired the Filipino imagination as the rugged (5 ft. 11 in., 170 Ibs.) man from Zambales. He displays emotions and utters words which might seem corny and insincere in more sophisticated men. In more than 1.500 villages and cities, he laughed, ate, mingled with and talked to the voters. "I love to shake the hands-the dirty hands -with...
...Gentry. Magsaysay is the first man to reach the top in the Philippines who is not of the gentry. A blunt, impetuous man who often acts before he thinks, Magsaysay has by no means yet mastered the coral-sharp reefs of Filipino politics, nor is he the parliamentary equal of many of the barracudas who swim in both Filipino parties...
...Malolos in Bulacan Province, wan, frail President Elpidio Quirino pleaded with the voters. "Give me another chance, if only to complete all the projects you want me to complete." In Manila, Ramon Magsaysay solicited votes in confident tones. "The Filipino people want back their self-respect, their sense of honor and their dignity. They can have these things back only by replacing those who have taken them away...
...have been ordered to produce Quirino pluralities or else. Quirino's managers released in turn a Nacionalista memorandum to party workers which suggested that if they anticipated attempts at intimidation, they should carry knives, hatchets or bolos. The election board in one province forbids flapping shirttails-the traditional Filipino way of dressing-on election day, so that officials can better tell whether a man is hiding weapons...