Word: garcias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Philippine public turned a cold shoulder. The stiffly formal meetings with Filipino officials were chilled by arguments over Japan's reparations payments ($550 million promised) to the Philippines. Last week, on the first anniversary of Kishi's icy reception in Manila, the Philippines' President Carlos Garcia went to Tokyo. Hoping that flattery would get them somewhere, the Japanese welcomed the former guerrilla leader, on whose head they had once placed a price of $50,000, like a long-lost brother...
Emperor Hirohito and other members of the royal family greeted Garcia, his wife and party of 22 on a red carpet at Tokyo airport, to the thunder of a 21-gun salute. For the next five days the Garcias, who like to live well both at home and abroad, were treated like royalty. Stung by criticism of her taste for jewelry and the corruption in her husband's regime (TIME, April 21), Mrs. Garcia wore her jewels only twice...
Titanic Proportions. A gold-crusted coach drawn by six bays hauled the Garcias in style to the Imperial Palace. At a lavish banquet, court musicians played those old Japanese airs, Haydn's 17th Symphony and selections from The Barber of Seville, and gifts were exchanged all around (including a stole and purse for Crown Prince Akihito's bride-to-be, who ' was barred by Japanese protocol from attending). Amiable Old Pol Garcia soon had the shy Emperor beaming...
Alarm & Excursion. As the screw tightened, governments around the world registered concern. Overnight, Philippine President Carlos Garcia created a National Security Council that expressed support for the U.S. position on Formosa; but the President added that the Philippine Republic itself would go to war only "if the U.S. bases in the Philippines are attacked." Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker suggested that the U.N. take up the dispute-thereby playing into the hands of Peking, which has been fighting for years for acceptance into...
After a smiling, muscle-clutching reunion with an old wartime friend, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, President Carlos Garcia of the Philippines flew off to a banquet in Phoenix, fell victim to feckless staff work in ad-libbing a surprise, honor-giving speech for Arizona Newsman Fritz Marquardt. Said Garcia: "I would like to award a decoration to one who has done a great deal for the Philippines: Governor Ernest McFarland." Democrat McFarland sat by red-faced as an aide rushed up to announce that the award was meant for Marquardt. Leaping after the fumble, Garcia failed to clear...