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Even though election day is three months away, Filipinos (who model their campaigning on what they imagine U.S. electioneering to be) were going at it hot & heavy last week. President Elpidio Quirino was handicapped by being in the U.S. to recover from an operation on his ulcers, and by the fact that Eisenhower had so far not invited him to Denver. Carlos Romulo was handicapped by the fact that his campaign had not caught on, and that he felt it necessary to issue daily statements that he would not pull out because of "my sacred duty to thousands." That left...
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...
...Manila from north, east and south, the Japanese garrison went berserk, killing 40,000 Filipinos in a 20-day orgy. Among those machine-gunned to death in the streets: the wife and three of the children of the man who is now President of the Philippine Republic, Elpidio Quirino. After the war, the Philippine government condemned 79 Japanese to death and 48 more to long prison terms, for these and hundreds of other atrocities. Charged with "command responsibility" for the rape of Manila, Lieut. General Shizuo Yokoyama was sentenced to death...
...other war criminals, the last of the Japanese invaders to leave the Philippines. They too were a far different-looking lot from the domineering Japanese soldiers who once lorded over and terrorized the Filipino populace, and left behind 91,180 noncombatant Filipino dead. In a surprise amnesty, President Quirino (now in Baltimore's Johns Hopkins hospital) had commuted 56 death sentences to life imprisonment in Japan, and pardoned all those serving prison terms. Later he even pardoned three of the men once sentenced to die. Said the President: "I do not want my children and my people to inherit...
Although he is suffering from bursitis, malaria, nervous exhaustion, kidney and heart complications and perhaps stomach ulcers, Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, 62, was not too sick to take all his authority with him when he flew to Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital for medical treatment. Vice President Fernando Lopez, now one of Quirino's political enemies, will only preside over social functions and handle the occasional ceremonies that call for a Vice President. Anything else, said the ailing Quirino, candidate for reelection, will be handled by the President by transpacific telephone...