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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: To date, Radio Moscow's overt recognition of the President's announcement\nhas been limited entirely to that contained in the official TASS statement which has\nbeen broadcast over more than 40 different transmissions.* The TASS statement has also\ngone the round of Soviet-controlled radios; but only minimal comment has appeared.\nMonitored Yugoslav broadcasts have not yet mentioned either the President's announcement\nor the TASS statement. Other radios outside the Soviet sphere, however, have been full\nof news and speculation--most of it following closely that appearing in the American\npress.\nSOVIET-CONTROLLED COMMENT: Comment from the Eastern European Satellites is ex-\ntremely limited. While Prague and Warsaw report that meetings in those cities greeted\nthe TASS statement with tremendous cheers and enthusiasm, a talk by Czechoslovakia's\nMinister of Education Nejedly scores past British and American refusal to accept all\nSoviet proposals for international control. Referring to the current \"excitement and\nalarm\" in the Western world, he charges that because the bomb \"has ceased to be the\nexclusive property of the U.S. and could be turned against her\" the British and\nAmericans are now contending that they always stood for atomic control. \"The effrontery\nof reactionaries cannot be surpassed.\" As \"worth particular attention,\" Warsaw calls\nattention to unidentified press statements linking Truman's announcement to alleged\npressure on Congress to increase credits for armaments. The Soviet-controlled German\nradio, as usual, is less reticent. One commentator quotes a 1946 statement by Molotov\nto the effect that \"it should not be forgotten that once the atomic bomb has appeared on\none side there will be atomic bombs and some other things, too, on the other side.\"\nCiting Vishinsky's U.N. demand for prohibition of the atomic weapon, he notes that it\ncame at the very moment when Truman's announcement \"brought such a welcome sobering up\nwith it.\" This \"sobering up,\" he suggests, may have produced an \"atmosphere in New\nYork and the various capitals favorable to the peace front.\" Other broadcasts also\npoint to the alleged change in America's tune. The SED paper is reported to have\naccused Truman of timing the announcement to coincide with the General Assembly meetings\n\"in order to sabotage the peace.\" Among reactions of Communists in the Western world,\n* Moscow's commentary-attention to the subject of atomic energy is limited entirely\nto Vishinsky's proposal for U.N. prohibition of the bomb and to alleged Anglo-American\ndifferences over atomic development. On Sunday, one commentator said that \"the\ngreat event of the past week was the opening of the fourth U.N. General Assembly\nsession.\"\nDECLASSIFIED\nRESTRICTED\nAuthority E.O. 10501"
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