We are witnessing today a reenactment of the American double-cross of [Emilio] Aguinaldo in 1898.
Official Gazette for April 10, 1973: DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Secretary Vicente Abad Santos said that personnel holding positions declared to be policy-determining, confidential, and highly technical, cannot be removed or suspended except for reasons as provided by law. The justice secretary issued his opinion in reply to a request from the chairman of the Population Commission on the possible effects on the security of tenure of certain commission employees who have permanent appointments to their positions, and whose positions are proposed to be declared as technical or professional, pursuant to Sections 8 and 11 of Presidential Decree No. 79 (Revised Population Act of the Philippines). The secretary said it is clear from Sections 8 and 11 of the decree that the commission is placed within the scope of the civil service. The exemption of certain positions of technical and professional staff and those declared by the board to be highly technical, policy-determining, and primarily confidential, is intended to refer only to appointment or selection which does not have to take into account merit and fitness as determined by competitive examination, Mr. Abad Santos said. He added that incumbent officers and employees of the Commission who hold permanent appointments do not lose their security of tenure by accepting appointment to the technical or professional staff.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRARIAN Reform reported that a total of 12,000 farmers throughout the country has received land transfer certificates since the government initiated agrarian reforms. The latest to receive land transfer papers were 2,948 tenant-farmers from 84 barrios in Nueva Ecija at awarding ceremonies held last April 7. A week earlier, the DAR distributed 2,571 land transfer certificates in Guimba and Nampicuan towns in the same province. Similar award ceremonies were held in Camarines Sur, Cebu, Bulacan, Isabela, Iloilo and Cabanatuan City.
THE PRESIDENT will join the Asian Rice Trade Fund which will be officially established at the 29th session of the Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE). The President has approved membership in the Asian Rice Trade Fund and has designated Secretary of Trade and Tourism Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. as the head of an 11-man delegation to the ECAFE conference. The delegation left for Tokyo today. The Fund is a significant step towards the stabilization of the region’s rice trade. The Philippines, and other developing countries in the region, could benefit by participating in the fund either as importer or exporter.
SECRETARY OF INFORMATION Francisco S. Tatad declared that when the government is afflicted by corruption and threats from without, constitutional authoritarianism may be used to save it if it is the only recourse left. The secretary said the government made a giant leap and “Martial Law came as a matter of course” when everything that the government did, including the best laws and most sober judges, the combined authority of the home, school and church and even the suspension of the writ of habeas corpus could not turn back rebellion pestering in the countryside and threatening to engulf the city. Mr. Tatad was the guest of honor of the Manila conference of Jaycees International Senators at the Hyatt Regency Hotel on Roxas Boulevard which was attended by Jaycees senators and delegates from Japan, Hongkong, Taiwan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, and other countries.
DEPARTMENT OF TRADE and Tourism called upon local government officials and leaders of the private sector to actively participate in the development of the tourist industry and the industrial growth of the country. In separate conferences with officials of Angeles City, Pampanga, and La Union, Secretary of Trade and Tourism Troadio T. Quiazon Jr. said their active participation is necessary to help the national leadership translate immediately into reality the country’s economic goals. On tourism, Mr. Quiazon said the assistance of local governments is necessary to ensure success.
PHILIPPINE NATIONAL Bank reported it has obtained a $25 million loan from the Chase Manhattan Bank of New York, even as PNB President P. O. Domingo announced that the government bank had reported a net profit of P9.9 million for the first quarters of 1973. The loan agreement with the New York bank would allow the PNB to avail itself of dollar funds for terms longer than the usual 180-day credit lines from foreign banks and does away with the sublimits in the cause and disposition of the dollar proceeds, Mr. Domingo reported.
The Bacon plan to segregate Mindanao in the economic plan of free trade to allow the continuous flow of raw materials from the Philippines to the U.S., the ______.
The conditions imposed for the war damage act—parity and the Philippine U. S. Bases.
Control of our Defense Forces build up.
Military Bases in perpetuity (later reduced during my state visit to the U.S. in Sept. 1966 to 25 years) where we are squatters in our own land.
We are at the mercy of the big nations who make the decisions without consulting us. We get involved in their wars and their monetary crisis.
We always pay the bill.
And when we need their help as in the present instance, they will not help. Even their agreements they will not fullfill [sic]. I attach the letter signed by Sec. [Carlos] Romulo which I ordered sent to the U.S. Embassy.
The dominance of the big nations will always be there—but imperialism encouraged no matter how indirect is abominable.
Conference on the Sabah question with Ex-Pres. [Diosdado] Macapagal, Ex Sen. Pres [Gil] Puyat, Ex-Senate Pro Temp. and former Chairman of the Com. on Foreign Affairs Jose Roy, Former Chairman on Foreign Affairs Lorenzo Sumulong, Secs. Romulo, [Juan] Ponce Enrile, [Vicente] Abad Santos, and [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.].
We meet again on Thursday to plan our position on my possible meeting with Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak and Chief Minister of Sabah Tun Mustapha.
Met Ralph Nubla on the raising of funds for veterans pension and placement.
Worked on my new book the New Society. I have decided to use the personal tone.
Dictated the outline of my speech for Jaycees International tomorrow.