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During a breather between her official duties Luz Banzon Magsaysay, pretty wife of Philippines President Ramon Magsaysay, was pictured cool and carefree in Manila...
...strongest and best friend of the U.S. in the Far East is 46-year-old Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines. A guerrilla fighter against the Japanese in World War II, a passionate admirer of Americans, and the man who as Defense Secretary crushed the Communist Huks, Magsaysay was elected President by a landslide last November. In five months in office, he has had to make the difficult transition from hero-above-politics to political leader. From Manila, TIME Senior Editor John Osborne cabled this report on the tough opposition Magsaysay faces inside his own party...
Millions of his countrymen, including some who have made a lot of trouble for him and will make more, hope that Ramon Magsaysay is right. A Senator of his Nacionalista Party, said last week: "This man is the only hope of our country. He must succeed. It will be a tragedy if he fails...
...Laurel's principal partner in leadership of the Nacionalista Party, his one-time enemy and current friend. Senator Claro Recto. In the five months since Magsaysay was inaugurated, Recto has firmly established himself as a brilliant, determined and relentless enemy of 1) Ramon Magsaysay and 2) U.S. policy and U.S. interests in Asia. Apart from politics and foreign affairs, he is Manila's most distinguished and probably its most successful corporation lawyer. Now 64. he is pudgy, softspoken, incisively gentle in conversation but savage in political combat or in a courtroom. Recto was born in southern Luzon...
...would-be free governments in Asia the surrender said: the President of the Philippines, Ramon Magsaysay, knew there could be no freedom in his country until the Communists were defeated. He was not dissuaded or sidetracked by taunts that he was a U.S. puppet or a victim of colonialism. He fought with all the arms he could get-from the U.S. or anywhere else, and with a wise program of social and economic reform. Magsaysay won because he fought. He was not enchanted when the Reds pulled their standard ruse of asking for negotiation and coalition when they...