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What provoked his outburst was a private dinner party given by U.S. Ambassador Raymond A. Spruance in honor of a visiting fireman: Democrat Adlai Stevenson, who is touring the Far East. Of the ten Filipino guests, only one was a Liberal; the rest, Quirino charged, were Nacionalistas, among them Ramon Magsaysay, the Huk-killing Defense Secretary who resigned last month to run against Quirino in next fall's presidential election campaign (TIME, March 9). The President did not mention that two other staunch Liberals, one of them his acting Defense Secretary, Oscar Castelo, were invited to the party...
...Magsaysay spoke plainly: "The government is full of crooks and grafters ... I resigned not as a millionaire but as a poor man." Although he still wore the label of the Liberal Party, his resignation made him a leading candidate to oppose Liberal Quirino on the ticket of the opposition Nacionalista Party. Leader Jose Laurel, a mortal political enemy of Elpidio Quirino, has already renounced his own ambitions for the nomination, if Magsaysay would run, and renewed his pledge last week: "I launched the candidacy of Ramon Magsaysay," said he, "and personally am committed to support his candidacy...
...Despite his wartime record of collaboration with the Japs, Jose Laurel's Nacionalista party won sweeping victories in democratic elections...
Moises Padilla was an insignificant figure but a courageous man, a former lieutenant in the U.S. Far East forces and later a local guerrilla leader who fought the Japanese. When election time rolled around, Padilla filed as Nacionalista candidate for mayor of Magallon, a dusty little pip on the map. Governor Lacson, a member of the Liberal Party, who liked to boast that he had 200,000 votes in his pocket, notified Padilla to clear out if he valued his health...
...hopped around the country to beagle out phony registrations, restrain the gunnery of rival politicos, and spot the places where his troops were most needed. In one town where preelection killing had broken out, he had the entire police force arrested for murder. In still another, where a Nacionalista candidate had been kidnaped, he jailed the mayor-a Liberal...