Word: luneta
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Half a million people crammed Manila's spacious bayside park, the Luneta, to hear Nixon and Magsaysay deliver Fourth of July addresses. In a speech carefully tooled to make clear U.S. policy on neutralism, Nixon said that the U.S., which went through an era of isolationism, can understand the feelings of some nations that want to avoid international alliances. But free nations, he said, can find far greater security by banding together. Then he laid down a clear line: "There is [a] brand of neutralism that makes no moral distinction between the Communist world and the free world. With...
...Philippine Protestants from 27 churches assembled in Manila's Luneta Park to join in a prayer for world peace and for the success of the eight-nation conference on Southeast Asian defense (see FOREIGN NEWS). Right after the Protestants marched out of the park, some 10,000 Roman Catholics marched in to pray for the very same things...