Written Thursday while April 4, 1973
waiting for dinner for Wednesday
Jacob Rothschild of England
7:30 PM
Conference with Secs. [Juan] Ponce Enrile, [Carlos] Romulo and [Francisco] Tatad and the military on
- Military assistance from U.S. We will write the U.S. government through Ambassador [Henry] Byroade that they have not helped us in a substantial manner now that we are hard up in Mindanao.
This will lay the promise for hard bargaining on the military agreements. - Sec. Tatad will now release the hard facts of the fighting in Mindanao including our losses and casualties—what towns are held by the enemy and their losses.
- I brought Dr. Alunan Glang as well as Datu Blah Sinsuat and his wife Esther into the conference to formalize their appointments as negotiators. I gave them written authority.
Dr. Glang will convoke the religious leaders and use them to negotiate peace.
Appointed for other provinces are
a.Cong. And Del. [Antonio] Raquiza and Vice Mayor Acausa of Tongkil for Sulu.
b.Ex-Mayor ______ and Hadji Niño for Basilan and the two Zamboangas.
The two Lanaos are well under control.
I have also directed that the AFP [Armed Forces of the Philippines] now push farther south after they have taken Maganoy and Decalongan in Ampatuan.
As well as give muscle to the effort led by the local executives in Sulu.
Jacob Rothschild has arrived. He is our guest in the palace with three companions.
He is 36 years old but considered the brains of the Rothchild Bank that was set up in 1806—during the Napoleonic Wars. When he says they were merely money lenders and changers.
No Official Gazette entry for this day.
His father, Lord [Victor] Rothschild is the advisor of Prime Minister [Edward] Heath on foreign afairs, England’s “[Henry] Kissinger.”