THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 14 JUNE 1968

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976201
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 12
• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: June 14, 1968

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The President's Daily Brief
14 June 1968
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THE PRESIDENT'S
DAILY BRIEF
14 JUNE 1968
1. South Vietnam
2. Berlin
Phan Quang
Dan, Minister of State, has been fired,
according to early morning reports from
Saigon. Dan lost his job because of a
recent speech at Stanford University
in which he suggested talks between the
Saigon government and the Liberation
Front.
There is considerable difference
of opinion within the West German gov-
ernment over what Bonn should dc) to
counter the latest East German travel
controls. One group, including Kie-
singer, is willing to consider counter-
measures; others--those who seek closer
ties in Eastern Europe--are inclined
to view the controls as something with
which the West Berliners will hive to
learn to live.
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3. Burma
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5. France
6. Communist China
Guy Mollet, who runs the French
Socialist Party, expects a Gaullist
election victory, followed by another
serious crisis this fall or winter.
He thinks the Gaullists and Communists
will cut deeply into the center and
non-Communist left, with the Gaullists
winning--but not decisively. Mollet
may be somewhat disheartened by the
disarray in which the non-Communist
left finds itself just before elections,
but he has a keen ear for subterranean
social and political rumblings.
Peking is quietly shifting to a
less strident propaganda line on for-
eign affairs. Since the beginning of
the Cultural Revolution the Chinese
have harangued the underdeveloped coun-
tries on the virtues of violence. Now
the tone is less on armed struggle and
more on "good-neighborliness between
countries with different social sys-
tems."
This change probably stems from
Peking's desire to repair some of the
damage its ranting has done to relations
with uncommitted nations. There is no
indication that the US and the Soviet
Union are included in any propaganda
amnesty.
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While the Chinese may be cooling
it abroad, the trouble at home is get-
ting worse again. Broadcasts from Pe-
king are encouraging the radicals and
discouraging the army from trying to
keep the peace. As a result, military
units are largely standing on the side-
lines while the Red Guard factions tear
each other--and several major cities--
apart.
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7. Soviet Union
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Brezhnev apparently is on the
mend. He showed up for the first time
since 30 May when he met with a Finnish
delegation yesterday.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
1.) Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
14 June 1968
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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East European Aid: Nghi's aid-seeking mission
has moved on from Rumania to Czechoslovakia. In
addition to standard pacts on supplementary "non-
refundable" aid for 1968 and "nonrefundable" aid
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for 1969, Rumania announced it had cancelled pay-
ments of "certain sums" due under previous credits
extended to North Vietnam. Bucharest is the first
Communist capital to cancel debts, although none
of Hanoi's aid suppliers expects to be paid.
Since 1967 most Communist countries have described
their aid as "nonrefundable."
Nghi has now concluded -agreements for East
European assistance in the coming year with Hungary,
Poland, Bulgaria, and Rumania.
A Czech transport delegation signed an agree-
ment in Hanoi on 12 June to help restore North
Vietnam's transport network free of charge. The
Czechs will supply rails and "framework"--presumably
iron and steel structures--for rail and highwa
bridges.
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