THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 7 AUGUST 1971

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005992793
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 8
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 7, 1971

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The President's Daily Brief
7 August 1971
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THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF
7 August 1971
PRINCIPAL DEVELOPMENTS
Kadar convened an unusual meeting of top Hungarian
party and government figures two days after signing
the Crimean communique. (Page 1)
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HUNGARY USSR-ROMANIA
On Wednesday, two days after signing the Cri-
mean summit communiqugi:Kadar convened an unusual
joint meeting of the party's central committee,
the:government'scouncil,of ministers, and popular
front leaders The meeting produced a communique
which included an uncharacteristically harsh for-
eign-policy line::
Between the lines of the communique we
read a serious concern over Budapest's
relations with Moscow as well as a warning
that this is not the time for independent
flings. Kadar, in most respects one of
Moscow's staunchest supporters, has been
tacitly pushing for a more forthcoming
attitude toward China for several months.
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Kadar resisted a Soviet attempt in June
to stir up old animosities between Romania
and Hungary. On 30 July Brezhnev and Pod-
gorny talked with Kadar in Moscow, and we
believe they criticized him for not suf-
ficiently supporting the USSR's Romanian
policy as well as for his initiatives re-
garding China. If the Soviets are adopting
an increasingly tough attitude on the Ro-
manian issue, they would almost certainly
make a special effort to get Kadar in Zine
early rather than risk a repetition of the
moderating tack he took in 1968 on Czecho-
slovakia.
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NOTES
USSR-India: Gromyko will arrive in India
tomorrow. Moscow's messages to India counselling
avoidance of war have thus far fallen on deaf ears
in New Delhi, which apparently still hopes to re-
ceive advance assurances of Soviet support if
fighting breaks out.
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first-hand assessment of Indian intentions.
Vietnam/
Malta: Mintoff has told US Ambassador Pritz-
laff that following his visit to. Tripoli on Wednes-
day he decided not to accept Libya's terms for an
agreement. Without spelling out the Libyans' de-
mands he said they want "the whole hog." Mintoff
reiterated Malta's needs for immediate cash, and
Ambassador Pritzlaff believes he hopes to gain time
while the UK and NATO work out a package that would
obviate any need to rely exclusively on Tripoli.
Communist China
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COMMUNIST CHINA
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