Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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McKinley's Prayer. The Filipinos have reason to cheer the rise of Ramon Magsaysay-and the U.S. has reason to be a sympathetic onlooker. For the infant republic of the Philippines is the great-and unfinished-U.S. experiment in transplanting democracy. In its tropical laboratory, among the dying roots of colonialism and the lushly growing thickets of Communism, the U.S. brand of freedom is being tested in the Orient...
Taking Ways. But the press was still free and critical, the inaudible masses were eager for something better, and there were still a few politicians unbeholden and uncorrupted. Among them was Ramon Magsaysay...
...Defense Committee, he attacked his own party, the Liberals, demanding an end to politics in the army, a real fight against the Huks, and a cleanup of the evils that gave them strength. When Boss Perez tried to quiet him with a few Chinese visas or some campaign donations, Magsaysay tossed them back at him. When politicians kept him from buying Quonset huts he needed as schoolhouses for Zambales, he gathered some of his wartime guerrillas, raided a surplus dump and made off with 140 huts. Later he paid for them-50 centavos (25?) apiece, the price he figured...
...reforms, so that in one year, tax revenues increased by 70%. Quirino also pushed through a new minimum-wage law, which increased the pay of 90% of Filipino wage earners. The U.S. also diplomatically persuaded Quirino that a cleanup of the army and constabulary was overdue, and that Congressman Magsaysay was just...
...Eats Before I Eat." Magsaysay got the job. He moved the Defense Department out of downtown Manila to suburban Camp Murphy, to get it away from the pressures of politicians. Trained to the simple life (he doesn't drink or smoke, and has never succumbed to the Filipino weakness for gambling), he picked out a modest, one-story cottage at the camp for himself, Luz and their three children. He combed the army for bumbling or corrupt officers, promoted the good ones, and put a revitalized force into the field, with one mission: "Kill Huks...