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    "ocrText": "INTRODUCTION: The sixth day of foreign radio reaction to the text of the\nAtlantic Pact brings out no important new developments. This final report will\ntherefore present briefly some salient features of all six days' propaganda output.\nOMISSIONS IN SOVIET AND SATELLITE BROADCASTS:\n1. There are few predictions of disunity as between nations within the\nwestern camp. The type of disunity which is stressed is the alleged conflict\nbetween the \"people\" of each nation (represented by the Italian demonstrations and\nby the great movement for peace which will reach its \"zenith\" in the World Peace\nCongress in April) and the \"ruling circles\" which are instigating war.\n2. There are few references by Moscow to military questions of any sort--\neither to the atom bomb or to the present weakness of western Europe in land forces.\nThe latter is stressed by some Czech and Finnish broadcasts, but not by Moscow,\nwhich follows its characteristic policy of avoiding specific military discussion.\n3. The actual text of the Pact has not been much discussed, though it was\nbroadcast in full to the Soviet home audience on 20 March. The Pact's declarations\nof peaceful intentions and of adherence to U.N. principles are widely denounced as\nsheer hypocrisy, but no great propaganda capital has been made of any actual\nquotations from the text, nor of any one article in it. There was some of this on\nthe fifth and sixth days, however. Chief emphasis has been on ridicule of the idea\nthat the countries involved represent a \"region\" and therefore come under Article\n52 of the Charter. Article 5 of the Pact is said to bypass the Security Council;\nand some broadcasts assert ambiguity in the concept of aggression. It is said,\nfor instance, that the United States could launch a war if an \"insubordinate\ngovernment\" (insubordinate to the United States) came to power in Italy or France.\n4. Conflict with the French-Soviet or British-Soviet treaties is asserted by\nBerlin and by North Shensi, but not, apparently, by Moscow itself.\nCHIEF EMPHASIS IN SOVIET AND SATELLITE BROADCASTS:\n1. There has been an enormous concentration on the single propaganda theme--\nusually stated as if its truth were self-evident--that the Pact is aggressive in\npurpose and is intended to bring about war. Other related themes (such as U.S.\ndomination, or the imperialist character of the nations involved, or their"
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