THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF - 1967/11/14

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRI EF
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5. South Vietnam
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A halt in bombing North Vietnam
would not lead to talks with the Na-
tional Liberation Front, a Front spokes-
man said last week. Interviewed by a
Japanese reporter in Moscow, Dang Cham
Thi took the same line both Hanoi and
the Front have taken in trying to draw
a sharp distinction between the air
war in the North and the guerrilla war
in the South. To talk with the Front,
Dang said, the US would have to accept
the Front's �conditions.
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
for the President's Eyes Only
14 November 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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Aid to North Vietnam: A Western press report
from Moscow quotes Soviet officials telling visiting
Japanese that the Soviet Union is now providing
some 80 to 85 percent of all foreign aid going into
North Vietnam. This almost certainly is a consider-
able exaggeration by the Soviets, who frequently try
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to play down the significance of Chinese Communist
support for Hanoi./
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Ho Cannot Now Accept Order of Lenin: Hanoi
radio in English this morning finally acknowledged
the Order of Lenin the Soviet Union conferred on
Ho Chi Minh as part of the Soviet anniversary cele-
bration. Hanoi first quoted the Soviet message to
Ho, and then gave Ho's reasons for declining the
award.
What purported to be Ho's message read:
"Dear Comrades: It was with boundless emotion
that I learned of your decision to confer on me a
Lenin Order, and I wish to thank you with all my
heart.
"May I make the following suggestion: At pres-
ent the U.S. aggressors are stepping up their war of
aggression against our fatherland, Vietnam. They
are massacring in the most barbarous manner tens of
thousands of my compatriots in the South as well as
in the North. Our armed forces and people through-
out the country are shedding their blood to fight
off U.S. aggression and save the country.
"In these circumstances, my mind would not be
at rest Should I accept now the particularly great
honor of receiving a Lenin Order. For this reason,
while thanking you with all my heart, may I ask you
to postpone the presentation of that infinitely high
and noble award until the day our people have driven
off the U.S. imperialist aggressors and completely
liberated our fatherland, Vietnam. Then I shall,
on behalf of all my compatriots, receive with honor
and joy the Order bearing the name of the Great
Lenin.
"With Communist greetings, Ho Chi Minh."
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North Vietnamese Delegation Still in Moscow:
Although most foreign delegations to the anniversary
celebrations in Moscow had left by last weekend, the
North Vietnamese delegation apparently was still
there as of yesterday. The Soviet press reported
that Foreign Minister Trinh met with Soviet Deputy
Foreign Minister Novikov yesterday. We assume that
other members of the delegation, including Defense
Minister Giap and Party First Secretary Le Duan, are
also engaged in substantive discussions with the
Soviets now that the festivities have ended.
II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
Hanoi Broadcasts Interview with "Women's Strike
for Peace" Officials: Hanoi is continuing to broad-
cast taped interviews with Dagmar Wilson. The latest,
as all the others, was in English to US troops in the
South. The theme of this 11 November program was
marked only by its lack of anything new.
Hanoi Broadcasts Another Carmichael Statement:
North Vie nam as roa cas ano er recor.e. message
from Stokely Carmichael to American Negro troops in
South Vietnam. The statement was broadcast by Hanoi
in English on 12 November, and is the third message
from Carmichael to be presented by Hanoi since late
October. Carmichael asserts that "black people" are
fighting for "liberation" in the US and that Negroes
should not fight in Vietnam.
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