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    "ocrText": "RESTR ICTED\nSURVEY SUPPLEMENT\n15 NOVEMBER 1949\n- 3 -\n(2) International weakness of the U.S. -Western-imperialist camp.\nProportion of Content\n1949\n1948\n1947\nCONTENT CATEGORY\nSPEECH SPEECH SPEECH\nInternational Western-Camp Weakness\n13.3%\n5.2%\n3.7%\nEconomic weakness, deterioration, crisis\n8.1\n3.5\n3.3\nThreatened catastrophe in event of war\n2.0\n0.0\n0.0\nFailure of machinations vs. Satellites\n2.0\n0.0\n0.4\nOther\n1.2\n1.7\n0.0\nMalenkov's increased stress on the economic difficulties in the West\nconsists primarily of references to economic deterioration and\n\"approaching crisis\" in the United States. Of equal interest is the\nappearance for the first time of several statements predicting or\nimplicitly threatening the West with catastrophe in the event of war*:\n\"The imperialists lay their hopes on military adventures because\nthey are afraid of the peaceful competition with Socialism; but\nit is quite obvious that military adventures promise nothing to\nthe imperialists but a catastrophe.\"\n\"It is not we, but the imperialists and aggressors who should\nfear war.\"\n\"Can there be any doubt whatever that if imperialists start a\nthird world war that war will become the grave not merely for\nseparate capitalist states but for world capitalism as a whole?\"\n\"The American people are beginning to understand that if the war-\nmongers should organize a new carnage of nations, then the\nsuffering of mothers, wives, sisters, and children will come\nalso to the American continent.\"\nAlso new is the appearance of a number of statements about the failure\nof alleged imperialist machinations against the New Democracies in\nEastern Europe.\n*\nThe only previous approximations to these statements by Malenkov include\nMolotov's 1948 reference to Stalin's pronouncement that \"the policy of the\ninstigators of a new war\n'may end only in an ignominious fiasco'\" and\nMolotov's 1947 warning that \"the lessons of the collapse of fascist Germany\nhave apparently been lost on those who so blindly strive to dominate the\nentire world. \"\nRESTR ICTED"
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