Word: ramon
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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 Then, three days before the balloting, Padilla's bodyguard was withdrawn-exactly on whose orders no one knows...
Taking Ways. But the press was still free and critical, the inaudible masses were eager for something better, and there were still a few politicians unbeholden and uncorrupted. Among them was Ramon Magsaysay...
Some angry, defeated Liberals wanted to read Ramon Magsaysay out of the party. But President Quirino, alternately jealous and proud of Magsaysay, has an avuncular affection for his Secretary of Defense. He has given Magsaysay extra jobs-among them, running the vital Manila Railroad and Philippines Airlines. Magsaysay himself shrugs his shoulders, twists his eloquent brown face into a broad grin and asks: "How can a person get mad because we hold honest elections? All I did was follow religiously the instructions of the President...
Freedom & Order. For a country sorely in need of both policemen and statesmen, Ramon Magsaysay has proved to be a great cop. Has he the makings of a statesman, too? It is still too early to tell. But some of his countrymen are already calling him "the Eisenhower of the Pacific." When he showed up on Manila's docks last week to welcome home his election policemen, the crowd mobbed him and sent up a chant: "Mabuhay [long live] Magsaysay, our next President...
Whatever happens to Ramon Magsaysay, he is teaching his country an invaluable lesson-a lesson which is still being learned, in Asia, in the Middle East, in Africa, where millions have recently won their freedom, sometimes before they are ready for it. The lesson is that real freedom can exist only with order...