Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ramon Magsaysay of the Philippines...
Lacey and other U.S. officials were worried by Magsaysay's open and unabashed exploitation of the friendship, but not Magsaysay. ''What do you know about Filipinos?'' he would say. "I tell you, my people like Americans, and they like to see me with Americans." In spite of a Filipino law which forbids foreigners to contribute to election campaigns. U.S. business interests in the islands anted up some $250.000 at a time when Magsaysay's Nationalist Party was seriously short of funds. On election day. 25 U.S. officers were sprinkled around polling areas by Major...
...Gentry. Magsaysay is the first man to reach the top in the Philippines who is not of the gentry. A blunt, impetuous man who often acts before he thinks, Magsaysay has by no means yet mastered the coral-sharp reefs of Filipino politics, nor is he the parliamentary equal of many of the barracudas who swim in both Filipino parties...
Landlords and powerful business interests have a say in the Nationalist Party's affairs. Its leaders, old Senators Jose Laurel and Claro Recto, are stringently conservative men who will seek to harness some of President Magsaysay's primitive radicalism. Many with whom the new President must work are, for example, bound to resent it if Magsaysay pushes fervently a program of land reform...
...with his boundless vigor and good health, his steel nerve, brash confidence and the support of the vast majority of his people, Ramon Magsaysay was one man who was not afflicted with doubts or fears. "The people," he vowed, "will have their...