Word: padilla
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Romulo was left to the comedians; the record of Quirino's Liberal Party was left to Magsaysay himself. Speaking mostly in Tagalog dialect, heaving with emotion, Magsaysay told of the 1951 murder of Politician Moises Padilla, "whose only crime was to make speeches against the administration." He told how Padilla's legs were broken, his eyes gouged out, and his tongue pierced, before he was killed by five bullets in the back. "I carried his body in my arms," shouted Magsaysay. "It was not the body of Padilla I carried, but the body of the humble people...
Possibilities for the job: the Philippines' Carlos Romulo, Mexico's Padilla Nervo. The reward: $20,000 tax-free salary, a big house and $20,000 for expenses...
Three Days. Padilla stayed right where he was. He also sent word to Defense Secretary Ramon Magsaysay (TIME, Nov. 26) that it was time to show Negros Occidental he meant his pledge of honest, free elections. Magsaysay promptly sent a bodyguard plus 300 marines, later a large contingent of R.O.T.C. men. Then, three days before the balloting, Padilla's bodyguard was withdrawn-exactly on whose orders no one knows...
...Moises Padilla lost the election. But the boss wasn't through with him. The day after, Padilla was picked up and a grim procession began. His hands tied, Padilla was led from one provincial town, to another and beaten methodically while spectators were told to take a good look and see what happened to those who defied Lacson...
...Words. One day Padilla's mother got to see her son. Beaten almost beyond recognition, he managed two words: "Communicate Magsaysay." But when Magsaysay got to Negros Occidental, it was too late. Padilla's body lay on a prison bench dripping with blood. Police pointed to bullet wounds in his back and explained that he had been shot while trying to escape. The autopsy showed, however, that Padilla's legs were broken before he was shot; he couldn't have taken a step. Magsaysay sent the body back to Manila for a military funeral and grimly...