Imelda went alone to Quezon Province on [Manuel] Quezon’s birthday celebration and as usual was mobbed by the people in the five towns she visited with Sen. Pres. Pro Tempore Jose Roy.
Speculations will continue snowballing about her running for President after me.
Assured the German financiers and suppliers of Abaca Pulp and Paper Industry that the government is interested in the project and will push it through. This was necessary as the funds have lain idle for some time.
Scolded Gen. [Eduardo] Garcia for announcing that he had ordered 3,000 Armalites for the PC [Philippine Constabulary]. In the first place, this is not true as only two thousand five hundred have been bought and it was not his idea. It violates our security measures.
Am pushing the setting up of occupancy installations in Flat Island and Nanshan Island because Freedom Island or Itu Ato has been occupied by the Nacionalist government. I ordered the Air Force to air-photo the islands and they have submitted their report. The occupancy of Flat Island and Nanshan Island will protect our
Official Gazette for August 19, 1970: The policy of social justice and the effort to deepen nationalism, keystones of the Commonwealth period, make Manuel L. Quezon still relevant today, President Marcos stated in a speech in Pilipino delivered for him by Sen. Jose J. Roy at the main rites in Lucena City commemorating the birthday of Quezon. Today, the President said,”we do not just pay lip service to social justice,” as attested to by his administration which has been “geared to social justice as the fulcrum of our national development program.” As in Quezon’s time, he pointed out, “we have had to reckon with the forces of reaction, conscienceless landlords, bureaucratic corruption and apathy, anarchistic elements, abusive agents of the law” But, there is definitely “a need for restructuring this society that breeds social justice,” he stressed. (Full text of the President’s speech in OG.)
The President, bothered by a cold, kept himself at Malacañang the whole day. He requested the First Lady, Mrs. Imelda R. Marcos, to proceed to Lucena without him, for their scheduled visit there. The President was to have delivered the main speech at the ceremonies. Instead, Sen. Roy appeared on his behalf.
During the day, the President went over official papers that needed his immediate personal attention in his study. A report on the government anti-smuggling campaign was received by the President from Secretary of Finance Cesar E. A. Virata. Virata listed the measures which his department has recently adopted to strengthen his drive against smuggling, especially of “blue-seal” cigarettes. The measures are:
1. The confiscation of all airplanes, ships and trucks used in transporting smuggled cigarettes and other contraband. 2. The burning of all blue seal cigarettes apprehended by law enforcement agencies instead of selling the same at public auctions, to deprive the smugglers of the profit motive.
Secretary Virata said he had requested the assignment of additional armed troops particularly in areas where smuggling is still practiced. The Finance Secretary also said that the Bureau of Internal Revenue has made representations with Congress for the passage of a bill requiring the quarterly payment of corporate income tax
shores—Palawan and our present grant of oil drilling rights in Palawan shelf to the Seafront