Word: magsaysayism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Huks are fighting the government mainly because they want a house and land of their own," said the Philippines' Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay. "All right, they can stop fighting, because I will give them a house and land...
...ship by the dynamic Secretary himself, a batch of 75 Communist guerrillas, who had surrendered or been captured in the hills of Luzon, set sail with their families for sparsely populated Mindanao, where they would farm their own land. At first, the Huks who had volunteered for Magsaysay's resettlement program were doubtful. Some half suspected they were walking into a trap. Six days later their doubts vanished when government trucks carried them into a vast resettlement farm at Kapatagan, and they found rows of neat, new houses and 16,000 acres of fertile land waiting for them. Said...
...acre parcel of farm land. There were difficulties: the Huks had no money; the women did not have enough cooking utensils; there was little bedding, no mosquito nets to ward off the malaria-bearing anophele, no electric wiring in the houses. Bustling Secretary Magsaysay promptly chewed out the commander. "I promised these settlers electric lights," he roared. "If there's anything I hate it's being unable to keep my word...
...Magsaysay meanwhile was busy with two more projects...
...Magsaysay first started getting results during the Japanese occupation, when he organized a guerrilla force of 12,000 strong, in the mountains where he was born. Says he: "It was no joke, living in those jungles. I had to take care of myself, not only against the Japs but against my own men. For a few Japanese pesos, any one of them could "have killed me. But I treated them like men, and shared everything I had with them. As a result, they treated me like...