Wednesday
The Advisory Committee on Rice submitted its report. There seems to be no rice in the markets according to the press. But this may be due to the storms. There will be about 173,000 tons available for this month. They are beginning to arrive at ports of destination and it may take a week to distribute them.
There are places where the local residents are now worried less the RCA [Rice and Corn Administration] rice brings down the price to less than cost of production. Thus in Albay palay has gone down from P35 per cavan to P22. Iloilo also seems to have plenty of supply.
We have prepared the country program for UNDP [United Nations Development Programme] outline of which I attach.
According to Sen. [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.], he is also filing libel cases against me. The Manila Times repeats the same libelous statements. Delegate [Jose] Bengzon [Jr.] offers his services to Aquino and denies his father is my lawyer.
I finalized the notes on the various theories of the “people’s war’’ or “protracted war” or “wars of liberation,” quoting from various texts.
I attach copy. It will be used for the memorandum in the Supreme Court on the suspension of the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus.
It has to be a simplified presentation of the theory of guerilla was because most books are too dedicated to detail as to be understandable by the non-expert in guerilla war or subversion.
I explained how [Vladimir] Lenin himself spoke of the ultimate objective being “to undermine through civil disturbances and political crises the will of the ruling class to govern, and, at the critical point, to take over state power through a well-planned and ably-directed insurrection;” “that Lenin used the cadres of industrial workers while Mao [Zedong] introduced the doctrine of the rural sanctuary which was physically separate from the enemy and which was defended by an armed force” from which base “the Communist Party seeks to extend its power and influence outwards” the taking over of rural areas to surround the cities which would then fall either by terrorism or of their own weight—and “instead of the swift insurrection, there must be the protected war;” that the contribution of Vietnamese guerillas to the theory of guerilla war is to replace Lenin’s secret cadres in the cities or Mao’s rural sanctuary with the destruction of the government administrative network by the simple expedient of assassinating village officials.