I did not send this—
December31, 1971
Dear Hans,
I could not help writing you on the Bulletin. It has graduated to the yellow journalism of the Manila Times.
It concocts (and I use the word advisedly) a supposed order from me to some fictitious Foreign Affairs post or officer to study the alleged status of martial law. It builds up the story without bothering to ask me what the truth was—and even after the press secretary had denied it vehemently as a fabrication.
Then it quotes my political enemies thus farther trying to color their original false story with truth.
Ignorance can be forgiven but not falsification.
May you be happy in your new role.
F. E. Marcos [Signed]