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...next four years Homer Bradshaw waited alone in prison, undergoing "a slow process of starvation." Not until last October did he hear the charges against him: espionage, "maintaining radio contacts with Hong Kong, Manila, Tokyo and the U.S." Says Bradshaw: "The greatest lies I've ever heard...
Their end seemed inglorious, yet the splendor and pride of their campaign clung to Merrill and his Marauders. His own brilliant Army career cut short when a third heart attack in Manila forced his retirement as a major general in 1948, Merrill was always acutely conscious of what his men had undergone. He attended their annual Labor Day reunions religiously, wrote them letters all year round, kept them out of trouble, lent them money...
...from the party slate at Magsaysay's insistence. Senator Recto found a berth on the Liberal slate as a "guest candidate," and set off to barnstorm against his President, whom he called a "dictator" and a "U.S. puppet." Two nights before the election, in a speech at the Manila Harvard Club, he dramatically proclaimed that "Magsaysayism" was the Filipino counterpart of McCarthyism...
...serious woman. The wife of a forestry expert working in the islands, she hopped perilously through the mountains by plane to talk to resettled Huk rebels, ventured into areas where two U.S. professors had recently been murdered because they inadvertently offended Ifuagao tribesmen, watched appalled the privileged Manila society where "ladies of distinction paid a thousand dollars per dress, per ball," while "a hundred thousand Filipinos had no floors to sleep on." What moved her most was the struggle of the proud, engaging Filipino people toward democracy, culminating in the stirring election of 1953-a "miracle" in which the people...
...arrived at his Lowry Air Force Base office, with Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin's letter (see Foreign Relations) in a Manila envelope tucked under his arm. After two hours at his desk, much of the time spent in telephone conversation with Washington, he was off again, for Cherry Hills Club. At noon he teed off with "Rip" Arnold, the club...