Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...should the U.S. ever be forced to withdraw from Japan and Okinawa. Said Admiral Arthur W. Radford, who first suggested the Cubi base in 1948 and was on hand to dedicate it: "What we do is directed against no nation and no peoples-only against aggression." Replied President Ramon Magsaysay: "Cubi is one more proof that...
...Manila for the shared Independence Day of the U.S. and the Philippine Republic, Nixon pooled the anniversaries-the 180th for the U.S. and the tenth for the Philippines-and referred to "190 years of independence." With President Ramon Magsaysay, he announced a new U.S. policy giving the Philippines title to U.S. military bases in that country, thereby settling an old point of tension between friends (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...People." From the moment Nixon and his wife emerged from a MATS Constellation at Manila's airport, the Vice President generated friendship. He shook hands held out from the cordoned crowd, relied with effect on his California Spanish, three times halted his white Cadillac on the drive to Magsaysay's residence to shake hands. Secret Service men blanched, but Filipinos loved it. Said one in ultimate tribute: "The word among the people is that Nixon is like Magsaysay...
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...
President Magsaysay, staunch friend of the U.S., convinced Secretary of State Dulles during his visit to Manila last March that the U.S. position should be changed in the interests of both countries. The U.S. now agrees to "turn over" U.S. owned "title papers and title claims" to the Philippines, thus upholding by implication the original validity of the U.S. claims. In effect, the statement changes little but accomplishes much. The U.S. will still have use of any bases stipulated by the 1947 treaty, but as guests instead of owners...