Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...routed the officers out of bed and made them distribute blankets. "It is the soldier who carries the gun and risks his life," said Magsaysay. "I must treat him like my own son. He eats before...
...demoralized population in Huk country, Magsaysay sent civil officers to explain the new army and to solicit their support. He posted rewards for Huks dead or alive, and saw to it that they were paid. But the claimants had to submit proof, preferably a photograph. He went after the Huks with their own tricks and their own cunning. They dressed their fighters in women's clothes; so did Magsaysay. They picked at army communications with phony messages and fake letters; Magsaysay disrupted their communications even more with the same tactics and with sharp, well-planned forays...
...They are fighting the government because they want a house and land of their own," said Magsaysay. "All right, they can stop fighting, because I will give it to them. And if they are not satisfied with that, by golly, I have another big deal for them. I am going to make the Huk a capitalist. I am going to set up a carpentry shop and let the Huks run it." The Huks began to come in, at first a trickle, then by the hundreds. Many signed up with Magsaysay as special anti-Huk commando teams ("When I turned over...
...Huks are still a force to be reckoned with. But they are no longer a threat to Manila, or (in daytime) along the main highways through central Luzon. Six of the Huk Politburo are in jail. When Magsaysay took over, the Huks numbered an estimated 16,000. Now he claims there are only 8,000. Swashbuckling Luis Taruc, the dyed-in-the-Red general of the rebellion, is still at large, but with Magsaysay's 100,000-peso price on his head, reportedly has become so nervous and distrustful of his own comrades that he will let only...
...Bother Me." With the Huks calmed down, Magsaysay announced that he was going to police the islandwide elections-an announcement that was greeted by cynical smiles. He went at his apparently hopeless job with a will-and a method. In Pag-asa, he hopped around the country to beagle out phony registrations, restrain the gunnery of rival politicos, and spot the places where his troops were most needed. In one town where preelection killing had broken out, he had the entire police force arrested for murder. In still another, where a Nacionalista candidate had been kidnaped, he jailed the mayor...