THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF

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• Document Creation Date: April 26, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 30, 2019
• Publication Date: November 28, 1967

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The President's Daily Brief
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DAILY BRIEF
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1. Cyprus
2. France
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The Turks early today tightened
the screws again on the Greeks with a
tough counterproposal to Mr. Vance's
latest compromise formula. This came
after a steady day and night of inten-
sive study and consultation among Turk-
ish leaders.
NATO Secretary General Brosio
thinks the new Turkish conditions will
be hard for the Greeks to accept, but
that Athens would be well advised to do
so, given the "very serious mood" in
Ankara.
As we read De Gaulle's press con-
ference, the most noteworthy thing was
his sharper tone and the evidence that
he is suffering from "hardening preju-
dices" on almost everything. He said
nothing important that was really new.
These were some of his points:
--His most aggressive statements
were on French Canada. They were fo-
cused on resistance to US domination
and on the ultimate "sovereignty" of
French Canada. He seems bemused by the
possibility of closer political ties be-
tween France and French Canada than any
responsible French-Canadian leader anti-
cipates.
--De Gaulle's principal reference
to the US came in his treatment of the
Middle East. The big-four solution he
envisages is impossible, he reiterated,
as long as the US is engaged in "the
vile war it is conducting in Vietnam."
--He made a fleeting prophecy of a
downward trend for the dollar in the wake
of British devaluation.
--He flatly rejected British member-
ship in the Common Market until Britain
radically transforms itself into "one of
the pillars of a European Europe."
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3. Canada
4. Rumania
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5. Pakistan
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The ax is falling on Canada's de-
fense budget, and it will hurt. Some
officials are considering a one-third
cutback in Canada's forces in Europe.
Defense Minister Cadieux told Parliament
last week that he will bring up Canadian
force reductions at the NATO meeting in
Brussels next month.
Governor Harriman arrived in Bucha-
rest yesterday in the midst of consider-
able ferment over the regime's domestic
policies. Party boss Ceausescu intends
to impose a series of economic and ad-
ministrative changes at a special party
conference next week. He has set aside
the intervening time for "public debate"
on the issues.
There are definite nationalistic
ramifications in the proposed reforms;
they will take Rumania further from the
Soviet model. Ceausescu, who has al-
ready irritated the traditionalists by
"de-Sovietizing" the constitution and
other institutions, is obviously not
afraid of continuing the process.
President Ayub takes his alliance
with Turkey very seriously.
Ankara radio has made several general
references to Pakistani support for Tur-
key in the crisis.
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6. Thailand
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The perennial problem of the Chi-
nese Nationalist irregulars is boilin
up again in Southeast Asia
Keng Tung.
Location of Chinese Nationalist
Irregulars
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Chiang-Rai.
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FOR THE PRESIDENT'S EYES ONLY
Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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Special Daily Report on North Vietnam
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28 November 1967
I. NOTES ON THE SITUATION
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,Hanoi Comments on Delegation in Italy: North
Vietnam's initial comment on its trade union delega-
tion's current visit to Italy was contained in a 25
November broadcast. It claimed that the group had
been cordially received by leaders of the Italian Com-
munist Party "who reaffirmed its solidarity with the
Vietnamese people." The broadcast also reported on
the delegation's meeting with other leftist groups in
various Italian cities and mentioned the donations re-
ceived from them.
Carmichael: Stokely finally left Tanzania late
on Sunday. He told the local press on leaving that
he was "going back to hell--the United States--via
Europe."
Yesterday afternoon, Carmichael showed up in
Sweden and made his way to the university town of
Uppsala. He will apparently make a speech and a tele-
vision appearance there.
From Sweden, Carmichael will probably 20 to Den-
mark.
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II. NORTH VIETNAMESE REFLECTIONS OF US POLITICAL
ATTITUDES ON THE WAR
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Hanoi's Interest in US Elections: Hanoi continues
to show keen interest in the forthcoming US presiden-
tial elections, but it is cautious in assessing evidence
of anti-Administration sentiment. North Vietnamese com-
mentary takes pains to show that the regime is not count-
ing on the elections for a change in US policy, and to
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stress that the war must be won by frustrating the
achievement of US objectives in South Vietnam.
This theme was taken up recently in Hanoi's army
newspaper which commented approvingly on American
antiwar sentiments, but ,asserted that North Vietnam,
does not overestimate "internal contradiction" in
the US. The deciding factor for victory, said the
paper, is to "change the balance of strength in our
favor on the battlefield by beating the Americans
and their allies, militarily and politically." What-
ever the results of the US presidential elections, it
went on, the Vietnam policy of the US Government "will
not change fundamentally by itself."
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Hanoi on Dissent: The North Vietnamese have been
quick to report recent actions protesting or criti-
cizing US policy in Vietnam. A recent broadcast in
English from Hanoi reported that 300 students and fac-
ulty of Yale University published a statement in the
New Haven papers registering their refusal to be
drafted for the war in Vietnam. The statement, accord-
ing to the radio, condemned the war as "unjust, illegal,
and immoral." The broadcast also reported an open
letter from 14,000 members of the Democratic Party car-
ried in the Los Angeles Times urging the President to
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stop the bombing and the escalation of the war. The
signers were reported as stating that they withdrew
their support of the President and would devote all
their energy to stopping the bloodshed in Vietnam.
A third letter, from a group of professors at
the University of California at Berkeley published
in the San Francisco Chronicle, calling on the US to
stop "at once, definitively and without condition
the bombing of the North," was also included in the
broadcast. Finally, Hanoi reported a statement by
former ambassador Galbraith asserting that "the Ameri.:-
can people did not support the war in Vietnam and
that the US could not win this war." Galbraith was
also quoted as urging the administration to stop
"forthwith the bombing of the North and bring the
troops home."
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US "Council of War": Hanoi has claimed that the
recent meeting in Washington of senior US officials
assigned to Vietnam was a "council of war" and that
despite official silence on the gathering, Presi-
dent Johnson "stressed accelerating the ground war
and the speeding up of the dispatch of additional
troops so as to push the war to a new stage." This
claim was contained in a Hanoi English language broad-
cast on 25 November which pointed to the increased
January draft call as evidence of the intended "US
escalation." The broadcast also pointed out that as
the meeting was being held the US was actually ex-
periencing "more serious defeats in the war" and that
"ever fiercer popular opposition to the war at home"
was confronting the "Johnson ruling group." In con-
clusion, the broadcast quoted Walter Lippmann's re-
cent lament that "the US is going through the worst
time in its whole life."
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Captured US Pilots: A recent Hanoi broadcast
in English to US troops in South Vietnam described the
"strange rendezvous" of US pilots in North Vietnamese
prison camps. The broadcast included the recorded
voices of some American pilots relating the details of
their capture. The North Vietnamese announcer claimed
that the US pilots long for an end to "Johnson's war,"
and he played songs with antiwar lyrics allegedly sung
by the captured pilots.
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