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...combat Quirino's political skill, his control of the party machinery and of governmental patronage. The odds were heavy against him. Should he manage to beat the islands' slickest politician for the nomination, his opponent in the November election would be the popular Huk-slayer, Ramon Magsaysay. But was Carlos Romulo downhearted? True to form, he beamed a toothy smile for photographers, uttered a headline: "I will not retreat...
Across the sea of white shirts and sun-brown faces floated the name of 45-year-old Ramon Magsaysay (pronounced wag-sigh-sigh), the fast-rising, Huk-fighting phenomenon who resigned as Secretary of Defense and quit President Elpidio Quirino's Liberal Party six weeks ago to join the Nacionalistas and wage war on Liberal corruption. Young businessmen, industrialists and army officers, and Filipino housewives-most of them political amateurs with the same kind of contagious enthusiasm as the amateurs for Ike and Stevenson-pitched in with U.S.-style posters and buttons and such slogans as "I sigh...
Early in his two-hour speech, the delegates listened politely. But as he droned on, the pavilion became clamorous with catcalls, whistles and the rhythmic banging of pop bottles. "Lastly! Lastly!" shouted delegates-meaning that the Senator should make his last point and sit down. Finally, he did. Magsaysay followed him and was brief. "I am a man of action," said he. "Therefore, I am not a speechmaker." Magsaysay sat down to a fervent ovation...
...vote of 705 to 49, the Nacionalistas chose Ramon Magsaysay. Against President Quirino, his seasoned and clever old boss, Amateur Magsaysay has a good chance-provided the elections can be kept as clean as they were two years ago, when Magsaysay's devoted soldiers did what they could to police the polls...
...provoked his outburst was a private dinner party given by U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Spruance in honor of a visiting fireman: Democrat Adlai Stevenson, who is touring the Far East. Of the ten Filipino guests, only one was a Liberal; the rest, Quirino charged, were Nacionalistas, among them Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk-killing Defense Secretary who resigned last month to run against Quirino in next fall's presidential election campaign (TIME, March 9). The President did not mention that two other staunch Liberals, one of them his acting Defense Secretary, Oscar Castelo, were invited to the party but failed...