Meeting of the Military Bases panel. I ordered that the plan for Sec. [Carlos] Romulo and Amb. [Eduardo] Romualdez to meet Sec. [Henry] Kissinger and USec. [William] Clements in Washington to explain our final position, be now called off because the U.S. has not replied to my aide-memoire asking the U.S. to clarify its responsibility under the Mutual Defense Treaty in view of the [William Stuart] Symington Report to the U.S. Senate favorably endorsing the testimony of Minister Wilson that the U.S. need not declare war in case of an attack by an enemy on the Philippines and the [William] Sullivan position in the bases talks to the same effect and with the explanation that such would be the action of the U.S. if the attack on the Philippines does not directly threaten the bases used by the U.S.
Sec. Kissinger had sent word through Amb. Sullivan that he was coming to the Philippines with USee. of Defense Clements in early October presumably to talk of the bases problem.
This conversation would involve us in U.S. domestic politics. And Kissinger is on the way out no matter who wins. We are being used for politics.
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