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...neutralism popped up in a wire from Indonesian veterans who urged "an end to big-power intervention in Asia." India and Burma refused to send delegates. The Filipinos did most of the effective talking. Philippine army men got across a series of lectures on how they had tackled the Huk guerrillas. President Quirino spoke up for "collective defense," and Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay, one of the ablest of Asia's antiCommunists, struck the same theme: "Our government is committed wholeheartedly to alliance with the free nations . . . [against] the immoral concept of might making right...
Warily a patrol of Philippine army soldiers sidled through the jungle in search of Huk guerrillas. In a clearing they saw something moving. It proved to be a scrawny eight-month-old baby crawling along the ground. Another patrol stumbled on a pair of year-old infants wandering through a coconut grove. A farmer out fishing heard a baby's wail, searched the bushes and came across two more babies...
Philippine army intelligence pieced together the story. A month before, the army had launched separate heavy attacks against the Communistic Huks who had been spreading terror through the provinces of Bataan and Laguna. Taken by surprise, the local Huk commanders ordered the guerrillas to retreat along narrow jungle paths into the mountains. All excess baggage had to be discarded On the way; that included children...
...suggestions on how we could combat Communism in the Philippines." The letter attacked the large Philippine landholders, corporations and the church, but it also assailed Communism. Filipinos blinked when they got to the letter writer's proposition-a truce in the government's war on the Communist Huk guerrillas and a national conference of Philippine landlords, churchmen, corporation executives and President Quirino to agree on wholesale division of the land and political reform for the Philippines...
Doubt. The Philippine government warily called in a handwriting expert to examine the signature. The expert, matching it with a five-year-old Taruc signature, pronounced it phony. But Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay, boss of the government's fight against the Huks, was not so sure. Once before, the Free Press had carried a letter from Huk Leader William Pomeroy, former American G.I. who is now a captive in Manila. It had proved to be genuine. In recent months, Taruc had shown signs of wanting to talk peace with Magsaysay...