The dire present—sugar shortage, bureaucratic lapses and intrigues, flooded classrooms and many more—has brought me back to the shrine of an old book. Know more:
The dire present—sugar shortage, bureaucratic lapses and intrigues, flooded classrooms and many more—has brought me back to the shrine of an old book. Written by A. V. H. Hartendorp, the book, though titled,The Magsaysay Administration., the prime mover of my act, of this longing to look at an administration that even up to now is still idealized as the government that could have propelled us to greatness. But we know what happened: a plane crash killed all those dreams and the man.
His inaugural speech, said to have been written by Leon Ma. Guerrero, who would later be appointed Undersecretary of Foreign Affairs, expressed Magsaysay’s deep convictions. Received with much shouting and jubilations, it was not the speech, however, that became unforgettable on that day. It was his promise made during the campaign that he would open Malacañang to the people and that they could come to see him there at any time.
One of the points in the book of Hartendorp is his discussion of other developments before and after Magsaysay. Thus, he looks into the data from 1949 to 1957. In terms of tonnages and values of the Philippines’s Ten Principal Exports, these are the interesting numbers: “Copra exports rose fairly regularly from 529,000 metric tons in 1949 to 943,000 metric tons in 1957.
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