THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 4 MAY 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973784
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: May 4, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
4 MAY 1967
1. North Vietnam
2. Common Market
Cargo deliveries by foreign ships
to North Vietnam continued at the high
level set during the first quarter of
the year. Some 129,000 tons were de-
livered in April--a slight drop from
the record of 142,000 tons in March.
Petroleum shipments declined, but
dry cargoes reached a new high. Con-
tinued heavy imports of food apparently
mean that earlier reports of a poor
harvest in North Vietnam were correct
and that other Communist countries are
underwriting Hanoi's needs in order to
head off a food crisis.
Paris has probably not yet de-
cided how to cope with London's bid
for membership and appears to be
stalling for time.
Wilson's bid was as close to an
unconditional one as was possible for
him to make. If De Gaulle is to keep
Britain out this time, he will have to
come much closer to revealing openly
his opposition to anything which would
obstruct French predominance in Western
Europe.
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3. Sino-Soviet
Relations
4. Eastern Europe
5. Spain
Moscow has more than doubled its
Chinese language propaganda broadcasts
since mid-April. The weekly schedule,
now 180 hours, includes two simultaneous
programs at prime evening hours. Mos-
cow's line stresses the growing isola-
tion of Mao and company from the Commu-
nist party. Some of the broadcasts are
frankly encouraging anti-Mao sentiment
in the Chinese Army.
The most significant thing to
emerge so far from last week's rather
feeble conference of European Communist
parties in Czechoslovakia has been the
extent of Rumania's isolation from its
erstwhile allies. Rumania has moved
perceptibly closer to the position long
held by Yugoslavia.
typically Yugoslav themes
played by the Rumanian press during the
conference, strongly suggests that the
joint absence of the two parties was no
coincidence.
One effect of the widespread and
violent May Day demonstrations this
year may well be to play into the hands
of extremists in both the regime and
the opposition. Ambassador Duke points
out that the regime's reversion to a
tough line on May Day stimulated rather
than discouraged worker defiance.
The violence suggests that Franco
will have increasing difficulty in his
effort to keep the lid on pressures
for liberalization.
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6. Guinea
Sekou Toure's regime is at its
lowest ebb since independence, though
he will probably somehow pull through
again. A sinking economy and finan-
cial scandals involving high officials
are mainly responsible. Characteris-
tically, Toure blames "foreign plotters."
He has ordered all foreign missionaries
out of the country by 1 June. This will
affect some seventy US citizens.
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