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...punish the enemy for invading Korea, Truman was willing last June to fight Korean Communists, Filipino Communists and Viet Minh Communists. All that MacArthur suggested was that he be allowed to fight some different Chinese Communists from the ones who were fighting him. No, said the President on April 11, that would be widening...
...Carmen Nicholson Gispert had known all along that her husband Francis Gispert was risking his life by helping Father Walter B. Hogan to break the labor monopoly of Manila's waterfont held by the racketeering Union de Obreros Estivadores de Filipino, (TIME, March 12). After Gispert was shot dead on March i, Mrs. Gispert aided police in tracking down her husband's killer, a 34-year-old waterfront tough named Arturo de los Santos y Esteban...
...good men are timid," adding: "Unless honest men with courage fight this thing, nobody's life will be worth 10? on the waterfront. If the government, shippers and stevedoring companies work together, three months could see a marvelous birth of freedom and justice on the waterfront." Many young Filipino laborers lined up with Hogan. Said one: "The U.O.E.F. may have big government men behind them, but we have God's own senator on our side...
...exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with an unexploded depth charge on its deck, and gingerly set it adrift in a leaky rubber boat; of how the Angler took aboard a batch of refugees which included a two-year-old, half-Filipino boy who was "smoking (and inhaling) a cigar between gulps of his dinner which he was receiving at his mother's breast"; of how the Tautog, with Mohammedan VIPs aboard, swung its nose toward Mecca at prayer time, three times a day; of how Captain John P. Cromwell, entrusted...
...cold shock to hear the wife of the U.S. Ambassador say publicly what many Filipinos were thinking about the critical condition of their country. Lamented the pro-government Philippines Herald: "It should rather be a Filipino leader of discernment and high statesmanship who should be talking to his people with the same pith and accent." Snapped the Manila Chronicle: "Without mincing any words, she told her listeners . . . what was wrong with them...