OPPOSITION STRONG IN PHILIPPINES TO SENDING TROOPS TO VIETNAM .: :
A bitter debate has been touched off in the Philippines over the enormous pressure brought to bear by the Johnson administration for. " Genbingents- ‘Of: ‘Filipino troops to go to Vietnan..
Last: November 9, Ferdinand. E.. Marcos won the. presidency on acampaign ‘promise to oppose the Pentagon's demand. Almost immediately after taking’ office; however, Marcos tore up his promise the way .. spokesmen of the capitalist system generally do. In return for assurances of substantial foreign "aid" from Washington, Marcos decided to back a bill in congress earmarking 35,000,000 pesos [$8,750,000] to finance Sending a , 000 military engineers and security troops to VYietnan.. -
As M.N.Monosco, editor and publisher of the Los Angeles Laging Una, put it (April 15]: "The dirty war in Viet Nam is under the direction of Washington. Marcos is permitted an auxiliary role, like the heads. of such puppet. states as South Korea and Thailand. Persuaded (by Hubert Humphrey among others) that the U.S..is going to win, Marcos fell into a baited trap -- the bait being an offer of financial aid to his administration if the Philippines:.would shed the blood of its sons to disprove the widespread belief that in Viet Nam white imperialists are making war against .colored colonials. ;
“The opposition to the. move to send Filipino troops to Vietnam has. been widespread, including a number of militant demonstrations. The measure has now been Slowed down somewhat in the Senate in view of the recent evidence in south Vietnam of the extreme unpopularity of the Ky regime.
The opposition in. the Senate: may not be strong enough to . block passage, according to the April 24 issue of The Asia Magazine, but it has certainly echoed popular. sentiment in this } Segment. of Wall Street's colonial empire.
Senator Lorenzo Tanada put the case against sending Filipino troops as follows: "They say it would raise the morale of the South Vietnamese if they saw their Filipino brothers fighting side by .. side with them. If South Vietnamese morale has not been sufficiently boosted by the sight of these magnificent.American giants with. their marvelous modern weapons and their inexhaustible supply of dollars -and K-rations, then nothing and no one can lift their morale. Why then this American insistence in getting us involved in the war? | The. only. answer. is that our presence there is needed to. dissipate . the growing impression that this is an American war against Asians."
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