THE PRESIDENT'S DAILY BRIEF 10 NOVEMBER 1966

• Document Type: FOIA
• Collection: President's Daily Brief 1961-1969
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0005968623
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: September 16, 2015
• Document Release Date: September 16, 2015
• Publication Date: November 10, 1966

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The President's Daily Brief
10 November 1966
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DAILY BRIEF
10 NOVEMBER 1966
1. North Vietnam
2. North Vietnam
3. Haiti
Hanoi radio told its listeners to-
day that "there will certainly be no
major changes" in American domestic and
foreign policies as a result of the US
elections. Hanoi's Communist Party
daily claimed--in a short article on
page four--that the election showed
that the American people were opposed
to "the war of aggression in Vietnam."
The Polish deputy foreign minister
has assured our ambassador in Warsaw
that Poland will contribute no hard cur-
rency to North Vietnam.
The Pole discounted press stories
that the recent Moscow conference had
decided to create a hard currency fund
to aid Hanoi. He said that hard cur-
rency was irrelevant to Hanoi's present
needs which are food, consumer goods,
and medicines.
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4. Communist China
5. Africa
Yesterday a People's Daily edi-
torial ordered workers and peasants not
to leave their posts to participate in
the cultural revolution, except in their
spare time. The Red Guards were told--
as they had been in September--to stay
out of industrial enterprises and agri-
cultural areas.
Peking's jumpiness is understand-
able, since the over-all economy is so
weak that even minor losses--especially
in food production--could have serious
consequences.
The once promising Organization of
African Unity barely staggered through
its summit meeting, which ended last
night. The latest hassle between Ghana
and Guinea made a shambles of the session,
but disharmony and futility would prob-
ably have set in even without this irri-
tant.
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6. West Germany
7. Rhodesia
Kurt-Georg Kiesinger, nominated
today by the Christian Democrats to suc-
ceed Erhard, is still a long way from
becoming chancellor.
Even if he gets the job, Kiesinger,
whose looks do not make up for his inde-
cisiveness, is unlikely to give Germany
any stronger leadership than Erhard has.
Tomorrow, Rhodesia will have sur-
vived for a year the British-inspired
sanctions which last winter London pre-
dicted would defeat the rebels "within
weeks." Instead, the country's economy
is still operating reasonably well and
the Smith government faces no serious
threat from whites or Africans either
imside or out.
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Smith's only problem now is London's
ultimatum to come to terms by the end of
the year or face a British request for
? UN sanctions. He is probably far from
panicky over this, since he knows Britain
will not support any UN action which
would endanger its trade with South Africa.
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