THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 20 JUNE 1967

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005973864
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 20, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
20 JUNE 1967
1, United Nations
2. Arab States
Preliminary reaction to President
Johnson's speech yesterday has been gen-
erally favorable among UN representatives--
other than the obvious exceptions. The
speech is regarded by many delegates as
conciliatory and moderate in tone, and
a concise summary of US views. There
has been considerable comment that Kosy-
gin's speech made the President's sound
even better.
The Latin Americans were pleased
that the speech gave first place to their
area. The Rumanian representative said
the President's position was not really
very far from that of his own country.
Several Arab delegates asked why
the US had become involved in the dis-
pute, believing the Israelis should
speak for themselves. Israel's repre-
sentative, however, characterized the
speech as good and helpful.
Indian and Saudi Arabian officials
at the UN complained that the speech of-
fered nothing new.
Syria has issued what appears to be
a call for guerrilla warfare against Is-
rael. Radio Damascus yesterday urged
Palestinians in Jordan's West Bank and
the Gaza Strip to unite in a "secret
armed struggle to paralyze the Israeli
economy and spread confusion" until the
Arabs can inflict a "final defeat" on Is-
rael.
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3. Soviet Union
4. Yugoslavia
5. China-India
Western press correspondents in
Moscow say that the Soviet party cen-
tral committee is meeting today to dis-
cuss the Middle East situation and cer-
tain "internal questions." There is
usually no official word on such meet-
ings until after they have broken up.
A central committee session at
this time would be useful to show that
the entire party is behind the Kosygin
line, but it would also help to remind
people that it is Brezhnev and not Ko-
sygin who is number one in the Russian
hierarchy.
Tito has moved quickly to plug the
hole in his nonalignment policy--a hole
which resulted from his going to Moscow's
bloc summit meeting ten days ago. Yugo?
slavia lined up with the Soviets in the
condemnation of Israel.
India's Embassy in Peking is under
its fourth straight day of siege. The
round-the-clock Red Guard demonstrations
are in retaliation for an Indian attack
on the Chinese Embassy in New Delhi last
week. There is no telling at this point
how long this will go on, but the In-
dians raised the ante again yesterday by
sealing off the Chinese in their New
Delhi compound.
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6. Cambodia
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