THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF - 1967/11/06

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DAILY BRIEF
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I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION:
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Ho Chi Minh Gets Award: As part of the Soviet
50th anniversary celebrations, Moscow has given its
highest award--the Order of Lenin--to Ho Chi Minh.
In announcing the award Saturday, the Soviet press
called Ho an "outstanding revolutionary and leader
of the world Communist movement, consistent fighter
for socialism and for strengthening Soviet-Vietnam-
ese friendship." Hanoi has made no comment as yet
on the award.
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No Comment: Neither Hanoi nor the Liberation
Front has as yet offered any commentary on Ambassa-
dor Goldberg's proposal to include the Front in any
UN Security Council debate of the Vietnam problem.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
More From the Women for Peace: Hanoi is contin-
uing to �broadcast statements on the war by leftist
Americans who have recently been in North Vietnam.
These broadcasts are in English and beamed to US
troops in South Vietnam. The latest such broadcast
was on 3 November and comprised remarks attributed
to Dagmar Wilson, national chairman of "Women Strike
for Peace." Mrs. Wilson was in Hanoi in early Oc-
tober.
The broadcast consisted of her views of Ameri-
can "antiwar activities." Mrs. Wilson expressed
the belief that the best way to support the boys in
Vietnam is to bring them home and related how people
like herself must try to turn the minds of people who
support the war effort. This was being done, she
claimed, by making heroes out of the young men who
have refused to fight. Mrs. Wilson said she believes
it is more important to live and work for what you
believe in than to "sacrifice and die."
In another broadcast in English to American
servicemen in the South, Hanoi on 3 November car-
ried excerpts from what is described as "letters
left behind on the battlefield." These were letters
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from a mother to a young Marine who, the broadcast
pointed out, died on 22 April, less than one month
after he had been promoted.
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Hanoi on the President's Press Conference:
Hanoi has denounced President Johnson's 1 November
press conference statement that US objectives in
Vietnam are limited. A Hanoi broadcast in English
on 4 November claimed that the President's declara-
tion actually means the US wants South Vietnam to
be "a new type colony and a US military base for
aggression." "This colonialist stand of the Johnson
administration," the broadcast asserted, "has shed
more light on his hypocritical announcement about a
peaceful settlement, his readiness to negotiate,
and the conditional cessation of the bombing." Be-
cause of this "hypocritical policy," the broadcast
said that the protest against US policy in Vietnam
has mounted throughout the world.
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