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...Robert Runnels Williams, the victory marks a climax in a 40-year war against beriberi which he began, as it happened, in the Philippines. At 24, an unknown research chemist in Manila's Bureau of Science, Williams noted that chronic beriberi was dramatically cured by an extract made from rice bran. That was in 1910. It gave Williams the germ of an idea which flowered, 25 years later, in his isolating vitamin BI and then synthesizing it cheaply...
Filipinos, who felt very close to MacArthur, were saddest of all. Sighed a Manila hack driver: "It is like being told that Uncle Sam is no more." A smalltown storekeeper asked: "This man Truman doesn't make sense. Why is it that he is tough and cruel to a brother American like MacArthur, yet is bashful to an enemy like Stalin...
Last month, Magsaysay alerted all military installations at Manila, on the eve of the ninth anniversary of the founding of the Communist-led Huk organization. Magsaysay was sure that the Huks would try to celebrate by an attack. Magsaysay s men caught 40 Huks as they stole into town to try to free six members of the Philippine Communist Party's politburo who had been captured last fall. He put the 40 in jail, sent the six politburocrats on a cruise in Manila Bay, where they would be safely out of reach of any more rescuers, and where...
Liquidation Week. Some 50 Huks descended on an isolated dairy farm near Antipolo, 20 miles from Manila, killed the American owners, John Hardie and his wife Irene, and their Australian foreman. Two days later, the Huks struck again. A force of 150 of them, dressed in stolen army uniforms and riding in army trucks, swooped down on Candaba, 48 miles north of Manila, seized the army post sacked the town, and shot 13 antiCommunists. Three days later, several hundred Huks attacked the busy Acoje chromite mines in mountainous Zambales province (where Magsaysay was born), killed six civilians and burned...
...headquarters, Magsaysay pounded the table so hard that the ashtray bounced, and barked orders: "Put more men in and around Manila. I want every suspicious person searched, and every suspicious house raided. Get every soldier in the provinces alerted. Keep pounding on all known Huk lairs. Burn the Huks out of Candaba swamps. There are 8,000 Huks in the country. That makes five Huks to each one of our platoons. Let us make this week the liquidation week...