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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: The Soviet reaction to ratification of the Atlantic Pact was quick,\nsimple, and widely publicized by the Moscow radio: (1) \"America has gone insane pre-\nparing for war in order to avoid an economic crisis\"; and (2) while the Senate and the\nParliaments of other countries have ratified the Pact, the overwhelming mass of the people\nof the world have not and never will approve it. Directing an immediate and heavy propa-\nganda fire against the Military Aid Program and President Truman's message on the subject,\nMoscow charges that this is a program for dumping antiquated armaments at a handsome pro-\nfit on Western Europe and that it is an attempt to encourage America's wavering West\nEuropean \"agents\" in the face of tremendous opposition to the Pact from their peoples. The\nSatellite radios parrot Moscow in describing ratification of the Pact as \"another step\ntoward war\" and in predicting a stormy voyage through Congress for the Military Aid Pro-\ngram. Western European reaction to ratification is enthusiastic, but tempered by anxiety\nover the possibility of Congressional curtailment or rejection of the Military Aid Program.\nSENATE RATIFICATION OF THE ATLANTIC PACT: Moscow commentaries are quick and unanimous in\nagreeing that Senate ratification of the Pact is meaningless in view of the world-wide\npopular opposition to it. \"A worthless scrap of paper,\" says a typical broadcast, adding:\n\"The world movement for peace dooms to failure this aggressive Pact of the Anglo-American\nimperialists.\" Another typical Soviet view, heard in at least 15 languages the day after\nratification, states: \"Their fear of the steadily oncoming crisis impels the American\nmonopolists to accelerate their efforts for a way out of their difficulties... in a mad\narmaments race.\" A third Soviet line of attack on the Pact is to stress the alleged\n\"contradictions\" dividing the Pact signatories, as witnessed by the reported Anglo-American\ndispute over the sharing of atomic secrets. Satellite transmitters echo the Soviet line\non ratification of the Pact. Warsaw points to the Anglo-American atomic dispute and warns\nthat a war \"provoked\" by the Americans in Europe would automatically involve the Western\nEuropean countries. In Berlin, the Red Army's TAEGLICHE RUNDSCHAU repeats a Moscow\ncharge that ratification was intended to divert attention from the failure of America's\n\"strong-arm\" foreign policy, particularly in China. Bucharest stresses the strength of\nthe world-wide \"peace movement\" and denounces the aggressive intentions of the Pact.\nAmong Western European reactions, the Paris radio reports on Foreign Minister\nSchuman's defense of the Pact in the French Parliament, including his assurance that there\nwas no possibility of admitting Germany into the Pact. It also notes Leon Blum's state-\nRESTRICTE\nDECLASSIFIED\nAuthority E.O. 10501"
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