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...bees and trees were "voted." Jose Laurel, openly predicting violence, came out recently with a dramatic proposal for forestalling it: For the good of the Philippines, he suggested, both he and Quirino should 1) renounce their ambitions to the Presidency, and 2) agree to support popular Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay, 45, who has ably curbed the Huk menace (TIME...
...Very Unkind." Suave Elpidio Quirino apparently has no intention of stepping down to make way for Magsaysay. "Doctor Laurel," he said sneeringly of Laurel's proposition, "always presumes that I will commit fraud. Very unkind of him." Quirino obviously wants to vindicate himself and his administration at the polls. Some of his followers in outlying provinces have been anything but upright, and must, indeed, regard with great fear the prospect of a change in administration after which they would probably be investigated and would possibly be jailed. A master political strategist, Quirino is busily playing up Laurel...
...Ramon Magsaysay, an appointee...
Quirino and a member of the President's Liberal Party, praise from Quirino's deadliest political enemy is already proving embarrassing, and it may ultimately prove to be dangerous. A man of great energy and ability and of indisputable honesty, Magsaysay is normally ambitious, and would, in usual circumstances, aspire to direct the destiny of his country. Already Magsaysay finds jealousy and suspicious scowls on the faces of his Liberal Party colleagues at presidential cabinet meetings, and some have taken to cutting him dead. Quirino recognizes the folly of seeming to sabotage so popular a national hero. Recently...
...power intervention in Asia." India and Burma refused to send delegates. The Filipinos did most of the effective talking. Philippine army men got across a series of lectures on how they had tackled the Huk guerrillas. President Quirino spoke up for "collective defense," and Defense Minister Ramon Magsaysay, one of the ablest of Asia's antiCommunists, struck the same theme: "Our government is committed wholeheartedly to alliance with the free nations . . . [against] the immoral concept of might making right...