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...years, no opposition critic has given popular President Ramon Magsaysay so much trouble as one outspoken member of his own Nacionalista Party. Wealthy old (65) Senator Claro Recto is an adroit corporation lawyer and the party's most vociferous voice in the Senate. Back in 1953, when the party badly needed a popular presidential candidate, Senator Recto had a major voice in the decision to reach into the Liberal Party and tap able young Ramon Magsaysay, then busy hunting down the Communist Huks as Defense Minister in the Quirino government. Ever since, Senator Recto has acted like...
...chairman of the armed services committee and the dominant member of the foreign relations committee, Recto opposed Magsaysay almost from the moment he took office. Magsaysay was firmly and proudly pro-U.S. Recto, who, for being Foreign Minister in the Japanese occupation government, was once tried for collaboration (and acquitted), opposed U.S. policy at every turn. Recto complained at the extension of U.S. bases in the Philippines, objected that U.S. security guarantees were "vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South...
This was more than Ramon Magsaysay could take. In a press conference the President last week declared flatly that he would oppose Senator Recto's renomination this fall, would campaign against him if the Nacionalista Party nominated him. "Recto is against America and, because I am a friend of America, he is against me," said Magsaysay...
Scripps-Howard staffers had gathered tape-recorded tributes from all over the world. Said Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay: "I think it is a tribute to the durability and staying power of the American press that it has been able to survive 50 years of Roy Howard." Chirped Madame Chiang Kaishek: "I am delighted to have this opportunity to make you listen to me for once...
Hatoyama responded by inviting Magsaysay's envoy to a Tokyo bargaining table. But it soon became clear that the Japanese, fearful of their precarious foreign trade position, meant to drive a hard bargain: a large award to the Philippines might set off a chain reaction of higher demands from other victims of Japanese expansion, e.g., Thailand, Indonesia...