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...Philippine political life. Within weeks of his death, President Garcia had eased Magsaysay's dedicated young men out of the administration. It was not always done with subtlety. Minister of Labor Eleuteria Adevoso found that his salary had been cut out of the annual appropriation by the Nacionalista-controlled Congress; when he resigned, the Congress restored the appropriation for his successor. Soon there was cynical talk of politicians once again dabbling in black-market deals, of the old squeeze put on Chinese merchants who, living as aliens, are always vulnerable to threats of deportation, or special harassing regulations...
...Nacionalista camp, Garcia's Running Mate Jose Laurel Jr. was equally frank and cynical. "No matter what you do," he told an audience of voters contemptuously, "the Nacionalistas will still control the Senate, so you had better vote for us because a Liberal candidate won't be able to get you anything." Young José, a second-generation Philippine politician whose father is still a potent force in the Senate, is at one and the same time the Liberals' greatest asset and their greatest liability...
...Ramon Magsaysay's funeral, Garcia made it perfectly clear that he intended to seek the presidency on his own this November. Last week Correspondent Bell, back in Manila, spent three hours with the President while Garcia chain-smoked Chesterfields and described the political maneuvering that brought him the Nacionalista Party nomination for President. For the lively story of how he did it, with delegates and decolletage, see FOREIGN NEWS, Here Comes Charley...
Nothing but Nice Things. But Garcia resembled Harry Truman in another way: he was determined to make it on his own, and he had a way of confounding the experts. Last week in Manila, as the last of 1,300 delegates to Garcia's (and Magsaysay's) Nacionalista Party convention packed up to go home, Garcia had the presidential nomination in his pocket (with 888 votes on the first ballot). At Garcia's feet lay the defeated Nacionalista paladins who had sought to deny him the nomination, including Nacionalista Party Boss Eulogio ("Amang") Rodriguez, Garcia...
With Garcia nominated, and the Nacionalista Party thus returning to pre-Magsaysay normalcy, Manila sat back to await the convention of the opposition Liberal Party, headed by 62-year-old José Yulo, onetime Philippine correspondent for John Foster Dulles' legal firm of Sullivan & Cromwell, and co-author (with U.S. Army Major Dwight D. Eisenhower*) of the first law passed by the new Philippine commonwealth...