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    "ocrText": "uniform. Comment ranges from predictions of continued American \"imperialist\nexpansionism\" to the suggestion that American foreign policy \"might shed some of\nits aggressiveness.\"\nSATELLITE RADIOS: Practically all of the monitored comments from Satellite trans-\nmitters (Sovist-controlled Germany, Poland, Rumania, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia\nto date) express \"no regret\" over the resignation of Marshall, the symbol of\nAmerica's \"adventurous imperialist policy.\" His resignation is called \"an\nacknowledgement of the bankruptcy of the so-called European aid program\"--the\nfailure of which \"should be regarded as the decisive cause of his resignation.\"\nAs for future American foreign policy, however, the following various suggestions\nare voiced:\n\"...Doan Acheson... will apply the Marshall Plan without Marshall...\"\n(Bucharest, Rumanian Home Service, 9 January 1949)\n\"BERLINER ZEITUNG describes the new man as & candidate of Wall Street. He\nhad been one of the first people who deserve to be described as spiritual\ninstigators of the Truman Doctrine.\" (Soviet-controlled Berlin, 8 January\n1949)\n\"TAEGLICHE RUNDSCHAU (organ of the Soviet Military Administration) says \"that\nit is premature to speak of a change in the political course of the U.S.; for\nif Marshall and Lovett have gone, Forrestal remains Secretary of Defense for\nthe present. His name and his program are identical with the Atlantic Pact\nand rearmament.\" (Hamburg, British-licensed German Press Service, 9 January\n1949)\n\"Oberbuergermeister Ebert (of Soviet-controlled Berlin) pointed out that...\nas a result of Marshall's resignation, U.S. foreign policy might possibly\nbecome less aggressive.\" (Berlin, Soviet-controlled German Press Service,\n7 January 1949)\n\"TELEPRESS says that Acheson to a certain extent stands outside the circle\nof warmongers.\" (Berlin, in German, 8 January 1949)\n\"The simultaneous resignation of General Smith might presage the resignation\nof other generals, such as Clay.\" (Budapest, Hungarian Home Service, 8\nJanuary 1949)\n\"NEUES DEUTSCHLAND remarks that \"Dean Acheson once was & Roosevelt man. ***\nDoes his return indicate the return to a foreign policy as it was practiced\nbefore the Marshall Plan? We do not believe so; but we should like, neverthe-\nless, to regard Acheson's appointment as a step toward serious reflection.\"\n(Berlin, Soviet-controlled German Press Service, 8 January 1949)\n\"NACHTEXPRESS says that... 'Acheson is said to be more flexible than the rigid\ngeneral. *** Possibly he will try to overcome the deadlock in the notorious\nBerlin question by replacing General Clay with a suitable successor.\" (Ibid.)\n\"It remains to be seen whether (the new appointments) will gradually result\nin a less aggressive U.S. policy.\" (Sovist-controlled Leipzig, in German,\n8 January 1949)"
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