Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dalliance discovered that his women friends were many and obliging. In time, the roster of Philippine officials indebted to Pedro de la Pena reached throughout army headquarters, the Senate and Manila's city hall. There was one official, however, whose acquaintance Pedro scrupulously avoided: Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay...
Last January, Magsaysay for the first time became aware of his high-living security agent, and promptly asked for his resignation. Army General Colixto Duque just as promptly reinstated Pedro. The Defense Secretary called the general on the carpet. Words flew hot and fast. "Anybody who can cause a rift between the general and me," said Magsaysay at last, "is a very dangerous person." And with that, he fired Pedro out of hand...
Fancies & Facts. Officers and officials high & low indignantly assured Magsaysay that Pedro was "a good man." Some threatened to resign, themselves, but the Defense Secretary held his ground. Then, last month, the U.S. Communist agitator William Pomeroy was captured (TIME, April 21). Among his papers, announced Magsaysay last week, were some interesting notes about De la Pena: Pedro was a secret Communist agent in the service of the Huks and Red China...
Pedro took to his heels and a fortnight later, disguised in women's clothes, was picked up in the captain's cabin of a ship outward-bound for Borneo. He was just fitting a woman's wig to his head when two of Magsaysay's men arrested him. From the papers tucked in his clothes, the agents who captured him soon gleaned even more information: Pedro was not only a Communist spy, he had apparently been marked down for liquidation by the Communists themselves for withholding funds. And where had the funds come from? They...
...moved slowly and painstakingly. He saw easygoing President Quirino and reportedly laid down an ultimatum: it was his job or Lacson's. Governor Lacson was suspended; A civil affairs team was ordered to gather evidence, piece by piece. Last week Magsaysay thought he had what he wanted. Justice Department representatives walked into the court in the provincial capital and filed charges against Governor Lacson and 25 henchmen, including three local mayors, two local chiefs of police. The charge was murder...