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...noon one day last week, a thin woman with roughened hands and bitter mouth walked across the huge chandeliered reception room at Malacanan, the palace of Filipino Presidents, and into the office marked "Presidential Complaints and Action Commission." A tired but courteous official asked her to sit down and tell him her trouble. Her problem, she said in soft Tagalog, was that her husband was about to go off to the U.S. and abandon her; she wanted President Magsaysay to keep him at home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES,GREECE: MAGSAYSAY FACES HIS OPPOSITION | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Such a request did not surprise the official. He and others at Malacanan have heard wives complain that their husbands were too vigorous, or impotent, or unfaithful; they have been asked to redress the wrongs of abused farm tenants, to pay the rent of impoverished widows. Filipinos have inundated the Complaints and Action Commission with 23,000 requests for help since Magsaysay set it up last January. In a country where the fortunate learn early to use their government, and the unfortunate to fear it, the word has gone out that any man or woman, rich or poor, may come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES,GREECE: MAGSAYSAY FACES HIS OPPOSITION | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

Would Magsaysay or Recto's "old guard" run the party and the government? Last week President Magsaysay drafted a five-point "summary of general principles," then invited Nacionalista Party leaders to dine with him at Malacanan. Only Senator Recto refused to go; he was in mourning for a son who was killed in a recent accident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES,GREECE: MAGSAYSAY FACES HIS OPPOSITION | 6/21/1954 | See Source »

...nursed their babies on satin-covered furniture in the drawing rooms. Still racked with fever, the President stood by shaking hand after hand until aides whisked him off to the presidential yacht in Manila Harbor for a breath of air. Police estimated that 50,000 people had come to Malacanan Palace during the two days. Said one newsman: "The Communist leader Taruc used to brag that if the people would follow him, he would bring them to Malacanan. It looks as though Magsaysay has done it first...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: New Guy | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

Magsaysay got to work by 5 a.m., and told his Cabinet he expected them to work 20 hours a day when necessary. He announced that Malacanan would henceforth be known as the "official residence," not the palace; he would be called Mister, not Excellency; and he and all top officials would immediately publish a full statement of their assets. (His own: $13,179.) He set up a "Complaints and Action Commission." He dictated an executive order that complaint telegrams may be sent for 10 centavos, or free should that be too much for a poor man to pay. He wanted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PHILIPPINES: New Guy | 1/11/1954 | See Source »

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