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    "ocrText": "-6-\nDelegate Erwin D. Canham assailed the Soviet proposed amendment to\n\"ensure\" government power over dissemination of \"honest\" information,\nHe said that the amendment was a \"cloak for repression\". 15\nEUROPEAN RECOVERY\nSecretary Acheson Notes Progress over Soviet Barriers. -Secretary\nAcheson declared in an address of May 3 before the US Chamber of\nCommerce:\n\"I think the forces of freedom and democracy are entitled\nto draw encouragement from the recent trends in Western Europe.\nSince the beginning of the European Recovery Program, totalitar-\nianism in Western Europe has made no advance. In revery important\nelection in this area, the people have clearly manifested their\nsupport of constitutional government. Communist efforts to\nimpede recovery have been defeated by vigorous governmental\naction, notably in France and Italy, Labor has become increasingly\naware of the dangers of communist agitation, Increased produc-\ntion and financial stability have been stimulated by renewed\nhope and confidence in the future. Hope and confidence in turn\nhave been augmented by economic recovery. The effects of this\nmarked improvement, both in morale and in actual living condi-\ntions, are being felt throughout Western Europe, and beyond. \"\n16\nRecovery Hindered by Soviet Opposition, -According to a Foreign\nAffairs Outline entitled Progress in European Recovery and the Road\nAhead, released by the Department during May, rejection of the European\nRecovery Program by the Soviet Union and her satellites gave evidence\nN\nthat what the USSR sought was not economic recovery and political\nstability in Western Europe, but the prolongation and aggravation of\nis\nconditions conducive to the achievement, without military aggression,\nof a Soviet-dominated Europe. The oscow=controlled Cominform promoted\ndisruptive actions in many ERP countries, using all the known Communist\ntechniques of infiltration, political strikes, sabotage, and intimida-\ntion, the pamphlet related, stating that every weapon of Soviet propa-\nganda had been turned to the purpose of discrediting the US and the ERP.\nSoviet obstructionism has been particularly damaging in Germany, where,\nin violation of its pledges given at Potsdam, the USSR has thwarted\nthe establishment of German economic unity, the paper stated, The\npaper pointed out that the US had no desire or intention to use the\nrecovery program to force its political and economic views on other\nnations and that the program was offered to all nations, the only con-\ndition of acceptance being a sincere willingness to cooperate. 17\n15\nBulletin, May 29, p. 678.\n16\nBulletin, May 15, p. 623.\n17\nForeign Affairs Outlines, No. 20 (Department of State publication\n3466, released May 1949)."
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