Word: magsaysayism
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Bell's mother was killed in a bombing raid in April 1945 while he was only two miles away, a Signal Corps officer attached to General Mac Arthur's staff. President Magsaysay looked at the distant mountains and said quietly that he did not object to Bell's claim. NEWLY arrived from Germany, Correspondent Bell was making the first circuit of his new beat last week. Before he moved to Bonn in 1954, he had covered an area of the Middle East encompassing roughly 5,500,000 square miles (area of the U.S.: 3,022,387 square...
Once a Dictator. To everyone's surprise, Magsaysay freely admitted that he had indeed signed a secret pact. Disillusioned by the corruption around him while serving as Defense Minister in the Liberal government of President Elpidio Quirino, Magsaysay agreed to bolt the Liberal Party and accept the Nationalist Party nomination for President. But in his pact with the Nationalists' José Laurel and Recto and Senator Lorenzo Tañada of the Citizen's Party, Magsaysay had made no stipulation about one term, he said. In fact, he told TIME'S James Bell last week, "Laurel...
Politics in the Philippines is simple these days: almost everybody likes President Ramon Magsaysay. But the Filipinos also like politics. Last week the 1957 presidential campaign was launched in the usual way-with a sudden splurge of innuendos and charges of dark intrigues and double-dealing. Magsaysay's chief rival is Senator Claro Recto, a member of his own party and one of the men who first induced Magsaysay to run for President in 1952. An adroit lawyer but a disappointed politician, Recto accused Magsaysay of signing a secret document in 1952 promising to serve only one term...
Documents captured in 1952 on Huk Communist guerrillas, said Magsaysay, listed many top Nationalist politicians as possible collaborators in a popular front. President Quirino planned to use these records to arrest all his top opponents as Communists or fellow travelers, and they knew it. Says Magsaysay: "Quirino even talked about killing Tañada. I wouldn't have anything to do with all this, because these men, whatever they may be, are not Communists. They were all afraid to run. They thought Quirino would have them assassinated. So they all stayed in their foxholes and told me to take...
Contact by Fingertip. Unruffled by all of this political sniping, Magsaysay took off for a Sunday plunge into the provinces, where his popularity is untouchable. Leaving Malacanan Palace at 6 a.m., he sped north into Tarlac province. Wherever a group of Filipinos had gathered along the roadside to wave and cheer, Magsaysay stuck out his hand and Filipinos would reach out and fleetingly brush his fingertips. Their faces lighted up at the contact; so did his. Whenever the crowd was as big as 200, Magsaysay popped out to shake everybody's hand, then walked down the road...