Goals of the former President of the Independent Republic of the Philippines Elpidio Quirino. Elpidio Quirino. Elpidio Quirino Agriculture. Agricultural Programs Elpidio Quirino' title='Agricultural Programs Elpidio Quirino' />President Elpidio Quirino and the Cult of Power 1. Suppressing the brutally frank Hardie Report on Agrarian Reform. Agricultural Programs Elpidio Quirino' title='Agricultural Programs Elpidio Quirino' />President Elpidio Quirino and the Cult of Power 1948 to 1953 Suppressing the brutally frank Hardie Report on Agrarian Reform. Personal Life. Elpidio Quirino was a native of Caoayan, Ilocos Sur although born in Vigan, Ilocos Sur to Don Mariano Quirino of Caoayan, Ilocos Sur and Doa Gregoria. What were the programs of Elpidio Quirino Quirinos biggest challenge was the strong opposition he faced from the rival Nationalist Party, who accused him of. Agrarian Reform Under Elpidio Quirino. Elpidio Quirino Philippine President 19481953 6th President of the Republic of the Philippines VicePresident Fernando H. Without moral and intellectual INDEPENDENCE, there is no anchor for national INDEPENDENCE. David Ben Gurion 1. Polish born Israeli Statesman, Prime Minister NOTES TO READERS  Colored andor underlined words are HTML links. Click on them to see the linked postsarticles. Forwarding this and other posts to relatives and friends, especially those in the homeland, is greatly appreciated. To share, use all social media tools email, blog, Google, Tumblr,Twitter,Facebook, etc. THANKS Click the following underlined titlelink to checkout these EssentialPrimary Readings About Us Filipino Natives Hi All,Our second post war president was Elpidio R. Quirino, who as Vice President rose to the presidency when Roxas died in 1. Then he was elected to the Presidency in 1. In below article, I. Derby Odbc Driver there. P. Soliongco provides us with his brief narrativecritical analysis of the Quirino presidency,1. President Roxas was earlier posted other presidents to follow. Not covered in this Soliongco narrative of the Quirino presidency is  AgrarianLand Reform, one of the most important issues of the time and that still remains being kicked around by our homelands rulers and thus, unresolved to this day. Historically, the agrarian reform problem wasis a lingering societal malaise that gave birth to several uprisings or rebellions and which in the early 1. Agricultural Programs Elpidio Quirino' title='Agricultural Programs Elpidio Quirino' />Quirino regime. Worried with the global upsurge of anti colonialism, nationalism and the threat of world communism and in the Philippines, seeing the Huk rebellion as part of this external or global concern instead of solely an internal Philippine problem, the U. The Land Of Stories Audiobook here. S. leveraged its foreign aid by demanding internal reformsin the Philippines. Thus President Truman sent an economic survey mission led by American banker Daniel W. Bell. Thereafter, the. Bell Mission made the usual and general recommendations of better taxation, improved bureaucracy, etc. U. S. Secretary of State. Dean Achesonto not seriously challenge the entrenched Filipino eliteoligarchs. As a follow up to the Bell Mission, the Quirino regime signed on the so called. Quirino Foster Agreement. The Agreement in which the Philippine government pledged to implement the necessary measures to fulfill the aspirations of the Filipino people while the U. S. will provide the required financial and technical aids. Where from the U. S. sent Robert S. Hardie, who was instrumental in the efficient and effective implementation of land reform in post war Japan, to do a similarly more detailedspecialized land tenure and development project in the Philippines. ThePhilippine Land Tenure Reform Analysis and Recommendations aka Hardie Report  was completed in 1. It was strongly approved and recommended in Washington, and by the the public, press, liberal reformists and labor organizations in the Philippines. My Google search into the topics of Philippine Agrarian Reform did not yield this particular Hardie Report, I found one that mentioned only the Bell Mission which led to the Hardie Study, I was able to purchase the book from hole in the wall treasure chest Solidaridad Bookstore at Padre Faura, ErmitaHowever, when submitted to President Quirino, Speaker Eugenio Perez,  and then Congressmen Diosdado Macapagal, Jose Feliciano, Jose O. Corpus, with their landholding elitesupporters in government, i. Jose Yulo, Elizalde, Montinola, Cabili, Cuaderno, etc. Report, even called it communist inspired. These guys forgot or were ignorant that strongly anti communist General Douglas Mac. Arthur himself employed Hardie for reforming post war Japan By the end of the day, the Quirino regime suppressed publicity of the Hardie Report and did not implement its recommendations. And unfortunately for the Hardie proponents and the peasants, the U. S. government by 1. Republican President Dwight Eisenhower with his chosen ultra conservative Secretary of State John Foster Dulles who emasculated the Hardie Report aside from replacing Hardie and his progressive colleagues, did not put enough pressure on the Quirino regime to act for social justice instead encouraged just a program of land resettlement. See documentedletterin U. S. Embassy about impressions re Quirino regime. Hardie Report into oblivion and dustbin of land reform history. In lieu of total land reform, partial land resettlement was implemented later by President Ramon Magsaysay The land resettlement project hijacking the land for the landless rebel slogan sited in Mindanao was made for ex Huks and together with soldiers stopped the peasant uprising and the cry for total land reform. I see land resettlement as a land grab that somewhat parallels events in U. Instagram For Windows Crackers. S. history influx of the white settlers into the land of Native Americans and the latters subsequent, practically genocidal demise. Overall, we can safely argue now that this Magsaysay resettlement solution was partial and short term and greatly contributed to the endless Mindanao conflict  between Christians and the Moros the original occupiers of the resettled lands. A solution that begot a new and continuing problem. Thus, the land reform issue, with increasing impoverishment for the peasants, extrajudicial killings of tenantsfarmers, etc., 6. In hindsight too, later self proclaimed Poor Boy from Lubao President Macapagal would pay lip service to land reform and in lieu guarantee the entrenched oligarchic status quo, as other presidents had done before and after him including his daughter President Gloria Arroyo Macapagal would do. Similarly and predictably, we can not expect any better from the Aquino boy midway through his presidency, as we did not get any action from her religiously Catholic mom, Cora Aquino who had the best opportunity, like. Ferdinand Marcos, to implement radical reforms but did not, because bottom line sheher family belonged to the landholding aristocracyeliteclass. BertWhere justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe. Fear history, for it respects no secrets Gregoria de Jesus  widow of Andres Bonifacio Philippine presidentsON PRESIDENTS, ET ALQUIRINO AND THE CULT OF POWERWritten by Indalecio P. Soliongco, Editorial Writercolumnist, Manila Chronicle. Edited by Prof. Renato Constantino. What we like about President Quirino is his perfect equanimity in the face of public clamor that he lift the suspension of habeas corpus. We suspect that this quality of the President arises from his inability to hear any other voice save his and that of President Truman. We cannot force him to heed the countrys wish, for the simple reason that he knows best what is good for him. He has come to the conclusion that the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus is useful to him for deeply personal reasons. What right, therefore, do we have in suggesting that he does something against his interests Without the writ, he is a virtual dictator. Already, his minions are arresting people for voicing criticism of him.