Word: magsaysay
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...bases it won from Japan (e.g., Okinawa), but in the Philippines it can point with pride to unprecedented colonial achievement. The Philippine Republic is unique not because it is well run and democratic (many British colonies are, too), but because its people, voting freely, elected President Ramon Magsaysay, a man whose platform is solidarity with the former "imperialist Yankee...
High in the Sierra Madre range of Luzon, one bright, moonlit night last week, a small man walked across the white sand of a dried river bed and held out his hand to a young Manila newsman, and to Manuel Manahan, chief of President Ramon Magsaysay's Complaints & Action Commission. After six years in the hills, Communist Luis Taruc, El Supremo of the Huk guerrillas, was keeping a rendezvous. In good English he said: "Let's get straight to the point...
...point was this: "The people have spoken and have overwhelmingly elected President Magsaysay. It is for us to accept their verdict . . . The civil war conditions in our country must now cease and justice must reign supreme ... I am a Filipino first and last." Taruc and his eight young Tommy-gun-toting bodyguards melted back into the jungle, and the next day every paper in Manila ran his appeal...
...President Magsaysay gave the Huks four more days to come to terms or face attack. He appealed personally to the Huks, offering "a chance for a new life. There is still time. Otherwise, meet the full force and power of our arms...
...Ramon Magsaysay...