MALACAÑAN PALACE
Manila
11:25 PM
April 11, 1970
Malacañang
Have just finished the state dinner for the One Asia Assembly delegates. Pleasant evening.
Spoke before them this morning on the New Directions for Asia; that “unless by One Asia we mean a Communist Asia, exported war is a reality. And for some time to come, exported war will be the most awesome obstacle to unity in Asia.” “We must create a situation in Asia where the condemnable acts of any superpower will be met by such a general censure by the small nations that the superpowers cannot disregard it.”.. “How can you computerize the Asian spirit and place the Asian soul on the scales of the
material world?”
Then met the jeepney drivers headed by Pelagio Villegas and Atty. Lazaro. I will induct their officers on Monday before the conferences on the minimum wage of the congressional, industrial and labor leaders. They still insist on the lowering of the gasoline prices. But I have ordered the Public Service Commission to cancel the certificates of public convenience of jeepney operators who increase their boundary limits thus depriving the jeepney drivers of their share in the increase in rates.
Have started issuing titles to the slum dwellers of the Tondo foreshore land. Settled their conflicts, rerouted the Roxas Boulevard so as not to go through the mass of houses; and directed that the large tracts of land not needed by the such recipients like Don Bosco. The radicals cannot exploit the Tondo slums now. Manglapus is however trying to incite a demonstration which I have been able to prevent.