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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\n\"THE FLAMING, APPEALING WORDS OF THE GREAT BANNER-BEARER OF PEACE\": The\nCommunist radios are prompt and effusive in their praise of the \"merciless logic,\nthe \"convincing argumentation, the \"clear and simple language, and the inspiring\neffect of the interview. They vehemently and voluminously declare that Stalin\ncompletely disproved the \"poisonous and slanderous propaganda\" concerning Soviet\npreparations for war and that his statements are a symbol of peace equal in force\nto the Stockholm Appeal. In general they do not discuss the substance of the re-\nmarks nor touch upon any of the implications of the interview, but proclaim again\nand again, in the words of Bucharest, that \"the bright answers of Comrade Stalin\nare a most important contribution to the defense of the cause of peace, an ardent\ncall to struggle for the defense of our happy future against the American-British\nimperialists, mankind's deadly enemies.\" These broadcasts are devoted rather to\nglorification of Stalin and the peace campaign than to discussion of the contro-\nversial issues.\nBerlin, however, is more down-to-earth. After conventional references to the\n\"military budgets\" of Britain and America, it elaborates Stalin's discussion of\nAnglo-American officers and soldiers into a delineation of the widespread American\nopposition to the Government's militarism. Gerhart Eisler contends that the inter-\nview is a warning to those who listen to the warmongers' claims \"that remilitariza-\ntion is necessary\" and that the Soviet Union wants war; these credulous persons\n\"should especially take to heart Stalin's words that war will become inevitable if\nthe warmongers succeed in misleading and deceiving the masses.\" He urges all\nGermans to \"immediately get to know Stalin's interview\" SO that it will counteract\nthe lies of the warmongers.\nMoscow radio is building an elaborate propaganda campaign on the PRAVDA inter-\nview. Having broadcast the statements some 115 times on 16 and 17 February it re-\nbroadcasts them on 18 February, ostensibly to correct the sensational and untrue\nreports in the bourgeois press. It follows this with grandiose accounts of the\nmanner in which the \"flaming, appealing words of the great banner-bearer of peace,\nComrade Stalin, are proudly circling the terrestrial globe, calling forth an ardent\nresponse in the hearts of those to whom the future of humanity is dear.\" The world-\nwide emotional response to the interview is reported and recapitulated in numerous\ntransmissions, all of which stress the people's realization that Stalin is their\nteacher and leader in the cause of peace.\nDECLASSIFIED\nAuthority E.O. 10501\nRESTRICTES"
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