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...Filipino officials had more loyal friends in high places than Pedro de la Pena, 36, one of the top agents in the Philippine army intelligence service, and few Manila businessmen were noisier defenders of free enterprise than his friend, Chinese-born Antonio Chua Cruz. Chua's Chinese-language weekly Free Asia was as noted in Manila for its bitter editorial attacks on Communism as Pedro was for the endless favors and help he gave those fighting the Red menace...
...with Civilian Pedro in G-2 soon found him a ready source for loans. Those with a yen for dalliance discovered that his women friends were many and obliging. In time, the roster of Philippine officials indebted to Pedro de la Pena reached throughout army headquarters, the Senate and Manila's city hall. There was one official, however, whose acquaintance Pedro scrupulously avoided: Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay...
...Communists themselves for withholding funds. And where had the funds come from? They had been provided by the supposedly anti-Communist Chua Cruz, whose patriotic mien, according to the - government, was only a front for a Communist extortion ring which had blackmailed an estimated 10 million pesos annually from Manila's Chinese...
...fight to get better wages fc Filipino workers, Jesuit Father Walter I Hogan, Manila's "labor priest," has mad himself some formidable enemies (TIMI March 12, 1951). But he has had the COE consistent support of Papal Nuncio Egidi Vagnozzi, a brisk, 46-year-old Italia whose plain speaking long ago got him th nickname of "II Americano" in Vatica circles. Since his arrival 2½-years ago Archbishop Vagnozzi has given heavy be hind-the-scenes support to the efforts of Roman Catholics like Philadelphian He gan to give Filipinos a fresh deal before the Communists...
Brought up in Manila slums, Celia Mariano took a B.S. degree with honors at the University of the Philippines. In April 1940 she joined a Communist cell in Manila, later took part in the Huk anti-Japanese resistance movement. After she married Pomeroy, an ex-G.I., in 1948, they jointly taught the Huks revolutionary tactics at the Huks' "Stalin Universities...