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...Filipino officials had more loyal friends in high places than Pedro de la Pena, 36, one of the top agents in the Philippine army intelligence service, and few Manila businessmen were noisier defenders of free enterprise than his friend, Chinese-born Antonio Chua Cruz. Chua's Chinese-language weekly Free Asia was as noted in Manila for its bitter editorial attacks on Communism as Pedro was for the endless favors and help he gave those fighting the Red menace...
...spurn a dollar from the government he hoped to overthrow, he enrolled under the G.I. Bill of Rights at the University of the Philippines. In 1948 he married Celia Mariano, a Filipino girl who attracted Pomeroy for special reasons: "I deliberately chose for a wife an active comrade in the movement so that there will be no antagonisms or divided loyalties." Known as "Bob" and "Rene," the Pomeroys became regular instructors at a "Stalin University" attended by Huk guerrillas in the Sierra Madre mountains. In the records of the Philippine police they were listed...
...Sullivan and Father Francis G. Kempel organized fishermen's and small farmers' cooperatives to pull their parishioners out of economic trouble. Father Walter Hogan's Institute of Social Order in Manila -one of five Jesuit labor-relations schools in India and the Philippines-has bucked Filipino industrialists on behalf of striking dock and airline workers (TIME...
...Eats Before I Eat." Magsaysay got the job. He moved the Defense Department out of downtown Manila to suburban Camp Murphy, to get it away from the pressures of politicians. Trained to the simple life (he doesn't drink or smoke, and has never succumbed to the Filipino weakness for gambling), he picked out a modest, one-story cottage at the camp for himself, Luz and their three children. He combed the army for bumbling or corrupt officers, promoted the good ones, and put a revitalized force into the field, with one mission: "Kill Huks...
...feel so proud to be a Filipino. We have a great people. With right leadership, with the guidance and the assistance of the United States, this country can grow to be the head of a family of democratic nations in this part of the globe...