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...fairer balance of life in the islands. What, then, divides them and the President? It is partly Magsaysay's refusal (erratic and inconsistent, but nevertheless determining) to play the game of politics as they know it. Partly it is pride: for example, old and venerated Senator José Laurel, the man who did most to elect Magsaysay under Nacionalista banners, expects to be recognized and consulted as one of Magsaysay's principal advisers and fiercely resents Magsaysay's failure to do so openly and regularly. But mostly it is intolerable to these men who have been...
Relentless Enemy. Laurel's personal urge for power is subdued...
...Laurel's principal partner in leadership of the Nacionalista Party, his one-time enemy and current friend. Senator Claro Recto. In the five months since Magsaysay was inaugurated, Recto has firmly established himself as a brilliant, determined and relentless enemy of 1) Ramon Magsaysay and 2) U.S. policy and U.S. interests in Asia. Apart from politics and foreign affairs, he is Manila's most distinguished and probably its most successful corporation lawyer. Now 64. he is pudgy, softspoken, incisively gentle in conversation but savage in political combat or in a courtroom. Recto was born in southern Luzon...
...spent the prewar years in the ranks of those who demanded immediate freedom from the U.S. at all costs, by World War II was one of the islands' "Big Five" political leaders. With Jose Laurel he was in the Japanese puppet regime during occupation, serving in a manner which Filipinos have come to regard as in the best interests of his countrymen. Recto, who insisted on being tried as a collaborator after the war to clear himself of all taint (he was acquitted), and Laurel both still resent bitterly General Douglas MacArthur's postwar treatment of them...
Guerrero, without consultation with President Magsaysay, promptly proclaimed that "Asia for the Asians" was to be the basis of Philippine foreign policy. Recto and Laurel enthusiastically applauded...