THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 19 NOVEMBER 1964

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• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 19, 1964

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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
19 NOVEMBER 1964
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DAILY BRIEF
NOVEMBER 1964
1. Congo
South Vietnam.,
3. UAR
4. Ghana
The government column spearheaded
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Stanleyville.rebels, aware of their
peril, are offering to negotiate with
the US through the OAU. (See map)
Huong has confided to Ambassador
Taylor that he thinks-Khanh is maneuver-
ing with the Buddhists against his gov-
ernment.
Disillusionment in Ghana with
Nkrumah's leftward trend may be more
pervasive than previously suspected.
We do not, however, have any evidence
of early action against him. For an
outpouring of confidence by Foreign
Minister Botsio, an old-guard Nkrumah
adherent, see Annex 1. Botsio comes
here soon for the UN session.
5. BolivIa A .brief situation report on Bo-
livia is included as Annex 2.
7. Cuba
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8. France
9. Indonesia
10. North Vietnam
The De Gaulle government has for
some time been easing out officials son-
sidered to be of questionable loyalty
to Gaullist doctrine. This process is
now affecting senior levels at the FOr-
eign Office, where conversations with
US Embassy officers are sometimes co9-
ducted in the corridors to escape'pos-
sible listening devices.
The government's financial pros-
pects are, if possible, bleaker than
ever, partly because European and
Japanese bankers turned down Sukarno's
requests for fresh commercial credits
during his recent foreign tour. Dja-
karta is cranking up the currency
printing presses.[
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ANNEX 1
Ambassador Mahoney Reports His Conversation
With the Ghanaian Foreign Minister
(State from Accra 410, 18 November)
AFTER FINISH OF OUR DISCUSSIONS ON CONGO AND ARTICLE 19
PROBLEMS, FOREIGN MINISTER BOTSIO DURING MY CALL LAST EVE-
NING BROUGHT UP NOTE WE SENT TO HIM ON NOVEMBER 6 PROTEST-
ING ANTI-AMERICAN ARTICLE IN SPARK ON CONGO WHICH CHARGED
US HAD MURDERED HAMMARSKJOLD. BOTSIO SAID HE HAD BEEN DIS-
CUSSING NOTE AND ARTICLE WITH PRESIDENT THAT VERY MORNING
(NOV 17), HAD ASKED NKRUMAH WHEN THISKIND OF BEHAVIOR WAS
GOING TO STOP AND POINTED OUT THAT FOREIGN MINISTRY WAS
CONSTANTLY HAVING TO APOLOGIZE TO GHANA'S WESTERN FRIENDS.
I SEIZED THIS OPENING TO REITERATE DAMAGING EFFECT VIRU-
LENCE OF PRESS WAS HAVING ON US-GHANA RELATIONS. STATED
THAT IN MY LAST TALK SEPT 18 WITH NKRUMAH ABOUT PRESS, PRES-
IDENT HAD MADE NO PRETENSE OF IGNORANCE ABOUT ATTACKS, EX-
PRESSED NO APOLOGIES OR CONCERN, AND REALLY SEEMED TAKE NO
INTEREST IN TRYING TO CORRECT SITUATION. BOTSIO CHIMED IN
TO SAY "AND THERE WASN'T ANY IMPROVEMENT, WAS THERE?" I
POINTED OUT THAT ON CONTRARY WHAT ACTUALLY HAPPENED HAD BEEN
FOR PRESS TO BECOME WORSE THAN EVER BEFORE, CONSEQUENTLY,
I SAID I NOT INTENDING TO GO OUT TO FLAGSTAFF HOUSE TO PRO-
TEST PRESS FOR FELT IT LARGELY USELESS EXERCISE.
BOTSIO TRIED TO EXPLAIN THAT PRESS CAMPAIGN WAS ACTIVITY
OF "SMALL BOYS" WHO HAVE FREE REIN AND NOT SUBJECT TO DISCI-
PLINE. I OBJECTED TO THIS STATEMENT AND SAID THAT HE AND I
BOTH KNEW BETTER, THAT THESE "SMALL BOYS" HAD THE APPROVAL
OF THE PRESIDENT AND WERE ACTUALLY DOING WHAT NKRUMAH DIRECTED
AND WANTED. I FURTHER INSISTED THAT NKRUMAH HAD GIVEN UP
DENYING RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE PRESS TO ME LONG TIME AGO AND
THAT FAR AS I WAS CONCERNED THERE WOULD BE NO IMPROVEMENT.
THIS INTERJECTION SEEMED TO TAKE BOTSIO BY SURPRISE, AND THEN
HE POURED FORTH CONFIDENCES AS HE HAS NEVER DONE BEFORE.
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OBVIOUSLY SPEAKING FROM THE HEART, HE SAID "YOU ARE COR?
RECT; THERE WILL BE NO CHANGES UNTIL THERE IS A CHANGE IN THE
GOVERNMENT." HE CONTINUED BY EXPLAINING ONE MAIN REASON HE
SUPPORTED UNION GOVERNMENT FOR AFRICA WAS BECAUSE IT OFFERED
A VEHICLE FOR EFFECTING CHANGE HERE. DESCRIBING UNION AS THE
"ONLY RAY OF DAYLIGHT,': HE SAID IF ACHIEVED IT WOULD MEAN
"THIS MAN" WOULD LOSE HIS INFLUENCE FOR OTHER HEADS OF STATE
WOULD NOT TOLERATE HIS IDEAS OR ACTIONS. THEREFORE, HE IN?
SISTED US MUST SUPPORT UNION CONCEPT AND MUST BE PATIENT WITH
WHAT HAPPENING IN GHANA NOW. HE VOWED THAT IF HE DIDN'T THINK
CHANGE COMING HE WOULD WALK OFF STAGE TOMORROW. CONTINUING,
HE SAID, "YOU AND I KNOW THIS CAN'T GO ON" AND PERSISTED IN
DISCOUNTING ABILITY OF NKRUMAH TO CONVERT GHANA INTO COMMU?
NIST STATE. MY REPLY TO THIS OBSERVATION WAS TO EMPHASIZE
OUR WORRY THAT IN TEN YEARS NKRUMAH MIGHT SUCCEED IN ACCOM?
PLISHING TRANSITION TO SUCH A SOCIETY. BOTSIO'S REACTION
TO MY REMARK WAS "MY GOD, WE ALL WILL BE CRAZY IF THIS SHOULD
CONTINUE FOR TEN YEARS." AND ON THAT NOTE, MY CALL WAS CON?
CLUDED.
COMMENT; BOTSIO LAST EVENING WAS OBVIOUSLY SHAKEN INDI?
VIDUAL WHO IS THOROUGHLY AND PROFOUNDLY DISILLUSIONED ABOUT
PRESENT COURSE EVENTS WITHIN GHANA. HE BOLDLY SPOKE UP FOR
NEED OF REFORM, MENTIONING "WE (MEANING GHANAIANS) ARE SOME?
HOW GOING TO EFFECT CHANGE." MAIN THEME HE REITERATED SEV?
ERAL TIMES WAS THAT "WE" REALIZE THERE NO HOPE AS LONG AS
NKRUMAH REMAINS HEAD OF STATE.
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ANNEX 2
The Bolivian Situation in Brief
The junta is slowly consolidating its position,
but has major problems with the miners and other im-
portant groups.
Junta President Barrientos' good-will trip to
the Catavi-Siglo Viente mine complex last weekend
was cancelled at the last minute, apparently because
of the hostility of the miners there to the junta.
These miners are controlled by Communist union leader
Federico Escobar,/
Earlier
Barrientos visited several other mining centers
where he received cordial, but unenthusiastic wel-
comes.
The miners have demanded that the control obrero
system--union veto over management decisions--be pre-
served. The junta would like to abolish the system,
a step essential to rehabilitation of the mining in-
dustry, but will probably have no more success than
did ex-President Paz. Without this rehabilitation,
Bolivia will be unable to earn the foreign exchange
necessary for its economic well-being. The miners
and other leftist-led labor groups have also made
inordinate demands on the junta, such as wage in-
creases
The junta's plea for a return of all weapons
held by civilians is falling on deaf ears. Few if
any have been recovered, and important groups such
as the Communist Party and Juan Lechin's National
Leftist Revolutionary Party have said they will not
comply.
The US Embassy in La Paz comments that although
the junta is at bottom hostile to the Communists, it
will be susceptible to Communist pressures.
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