THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 2 AUGUST 1969

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1969-1977
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005976913
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: T
• Document Page Count: 5
• Document Creation Date: August 14, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 24, 2016
• Publication Date: August 2, 1969

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The President's Daily Brief
2 August 1969
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MAJOR PROBLEMS
EUROPE
Both Paris and London seem ready to begin low-keyed
discussions on the UK's entry into the EEC, but they re-
main suspicious of each other's motives. The British are
resolved to make no special arrangements with the French
and say they intend to keep other EEC members informed of
the results of talks with the French. For its part
Paris, still suspicious of Ambassador Soamesc is trying
to conduct discussions with the "highest levels of the
Wilson government."
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II, OTHER IMPORTANT DEVELOPMENTS
COMMUNIST CHINA
Peking media so far have taken no notice of the US
decision to relax restrictions on travel to Communist China.
It may be no coincidence however, that NCNA, two days
after the Department's announcement, quoted an unnamed
American at a Chinese exhibit in Copenhagen to the effect
that the US "blockade" had kept him ignorant of the "new'
China."
Moscow is treating the subject with considerable cir-
cumspection. Such comment as there has been has been
limited to scattered domestic and foreign radio brOadcasts.
These view the announcement with some foreboding as sympto-
matic of Sino-US collusion, with Peking cOurting Washington
as part of its anti-Soviet course and Washington responding
to a situation which "reactionary" US circles think exploit-
able.
EL SALVADOR,- HONDURAS
Salvadoran troops
are removing everything of value and destroying much of
what they can't carry. Even if these charges of pillage
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turn out to be false, other aspects of the cease-fire
arrangements will continue to rankle the Hondurans. They
are bitter that the Salvadorans got off without being de-
clared aggressors or penalized in any way. Moreover,
matters are not helped any by the Salvadoran radio's con-
tinued crowing about "diplomatic as well as military vic-
tory."
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