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IMEDIATE RELEASE
AUGUST 9, 1951
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT
The Government of the Soviet Union has replied to the
resolution of the United States Congress declaring the friendship of
our people for the Soviet peoples and our deep desire to achiove
world peace. The Soviet Government withheld this resolution from
the people of the Soviet Union for more than a month -- although
of course some of them heard it over the Voice of America. Now
the Soviet Government has finally released the resolution through
Sovict newspapers and over the Soviet radio.
I am glad they did this, as millions of Soviet citizens
can now heaf and read for themselves the resolution of friendship
enacted by the representatives of the American people.
Mr. Shvernik's reply, naturally, was released in our
country as soon as it was received, since in a frree country there
is no reason or desire to withhold such information from the people.
I noted with special interest the statement in Mr. Shvornik's letter
that the Soviet Government places no barricrs in the path of the
intcrcourse of the Sovict people with the people of other countries.
This has not been true in the past -- witness the rigid prohibitions
laid down by the Soviet Government against people from the Sovict
Union travelling abroad and people from other countries travelling in
the Sovict Union, the rigid restrictions imposed by the Soviet
Government on the reading of books and magazines and newspapers from
outside of the Soviet Union by Soviet people, the large-scale and
costly effort by the Soviet Govarnment to !f jam" the radio broadcasts
of the Voice of America and other free radios, the prevention by the
Soviet Government of Russian wives of citizens of other countrics from
leaving the Sovict Union, and many other barriors preventing travel
and communication between the Sovict Union and other countriee.. I.will
be particularly interosted to see whother the Soviet Government means
what it says, and now intends to change these policies.
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