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...assert the authority that is his. Nationalist right-wingers in the Senate, who had climbed back to power on his coattails, openly and often contemptuously opposed him and his administration. Four weeks ago, Magsaysay, at last, came to grips with his arch-opponent in his own party, Senator Claro Recto, 65, a skillful lawyer, neutralist, and determined anti-American, who had done his caustic best to snipe at Magsaysay's policy of friendship...
...chairman of the armed services committee and the dominant member of the foreign relations committee, Recto opposed Magsaysay almost from the moment he took office. Magsaysay was firmly and proudly pro-U.S. Recto, who, for being Foreign Minister in the Japanese occupation government, was once tried for collaboration (and acquitted), opposed U.S. policy at every turn. Recto complained at the extension of U.S. bases in the Philippines, objected that U.S. security guarantees were "vague and equivocal" (he wanted them "automatic"), opposed SEATO as "unduly provoking Red China," and launched a virulent attack on Magsaysay's recognition of South...
This was more than Ramon Magsaysay could take. In a press conference the President last week declared flatly that he would oppose Senator Recto's renomination this fall, would campaign against him if the Nacionalista Party nominated him. "Recto is against America and, because I am a friend of America, he is against me," said Magsaysay...
...split was wide open. Recto lashed back: "I shall hound him from barrio to barrio...
Magsaysay, who makes no bones about his admiration of the U.S., promptly challenged Recto to run against him in the presidential elections in 1957. "He can run as the candidate of Mao Tse-tung, and I will run as an enemy of Communism and friend of the U.S.," snapped Magsaysay...