Word: kangleon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Most Filipinos applauded Quirino's candor. But the next day the President decided to postpone a much-needed housecleaning of the Philippine army top brass. The postponement so infuriated able Defense Secretary Ruperto Kangleon that he resigned. Quirino replaced him with 40-year-old Ramon Magsaysay, a staff officer with the U.S. cavalry during World...
...chain reaction that ran through the Far East. He announced that the U.S. would defend Formosa and step up its help to two other governments, the Philippines and Indo-China, which were fighting Communist rebellion. The immediate reaction of the Philippine government was a statement from Defense Secretary Ruperto Kangleon that if the U.S. would take care of the Communist threat from outside the country, the Filipinos would speed up their campaign against the Huks in Luzon. Three days after the Truman decision, the first U.S. planes arrived in Indo-China and were delivered to the French. With renewed assurances...
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