The force of nationalism has always been underestimated by the great powers. This they did again in Indo China—specially the United States. Americans are still asking the question as “to why our (American) Vietnamese did not fight as well as the Vietnamese of the...
Marcos Diaries
May 26, 1975
I met Admiral N. [Noel] Gayler, CINCPAC [Commander in Chief, Pacific Command], today in a breakfast conference. Before the breakfast I called him into my study with Ambassador [William] Sullivan and Sec. [Alejandro] Melchor [Jr.]. While Admiral Gayler outlined the...
May 13, 1975
It is apparent that the [Benigno] Aquino [Jr.] partisans have succeeded in foisting him as a symbol that the Americans and other alien westerners have come to accept—so much so the DPI [Department of Public Information] information attaches report an “Aquino watch”...
April 28, 1975
AN OVERALL REVI EW OF BOTH THE FOREIGN POLICY OF THE PHILIPPINES AS WELL AS TH E MILITARY AND SECURITY POLICIES: This, of course, impinges on the economic planning which involves the entry of investments from foreign lands because as of today, more than 51% of all...
February 26, 1975
Commander Dante [Bernabe Buscayno] has offered to surrender. He has met Tony [Antonio] Raquiza in a motel in Manila with two other commanders. The offer affects the entire NPA [New People’s Army] throughout the Philippines except Jose Maria Sison whom Dante says is a...
March 9, 1975
Sunday I have just seen the Trial of the Tiger of Malaya (Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita) who surrendered to my unit the 14th Infantry Regiment, USA at Kiangan, Mt. Province in August 1945—as shown in Channel 7. It is a dramatization that overplays the injustice allegedly...
February 5, 1975
Sec. V. [Vicente] Abad Santos— Sec. [Arturo] Tanco [Jr.], It seems that only a few of the officials involved in the fertilizer and cattle anomalies are being formally charge and investigated. I hereby direct Sec. V. Abad Santos that all officials who approved the...
February 11, 1975
Adrian [Cristobal], Use this as the theme for the Heart Center speech— F. E. Marcos [Signed] I am astounded at the conservatism, nay the backwardness of those in my profession—of the social engineer, or the political scientist or statesman—as compared to the radical...
February 4, 1975
Sec. Juan Ponce Enrile, I direct you to prepare a decree then declare illegal, and authorize the government to take over, the ownership and operation of motor boats less than a hundred feet in size with a speed in excess of twenty knots an hour. Those used for lawful...
February 5, 1975
Wednesday Can we create a new form of government—a new political concept—that guarrantees [sic] effective leadership or authority that can adequately meet a crisis of any kind but at the same time is not or cannot turn tyrannical or oppressive but must be benevolent...