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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: To date, there has been relatively little monitored foreign\nradio comment on the President's State of the Union message. The Soviet radio\nhas not yet been heard from on the subject, although on Wednesday it devoted one\nbroadcast to the problem of the budget and the forthcoming message. The Prague\nradio, the only East European Satellite to have commented so far, charges the\nPresident with asking for a continuation of America's aggressive policy. A Soviet-\ncontrolled Austrian broadcast taunts Truman with having \"admitted that the\nstrenuously denied economic reverse in the U.S. actually did occur during the past\nyear.\" The BBC reports that the British press approves many of the President's\npoints. A Madrid radio commentator finds that in the field of foreign policy the\nPresident's message was \"not of great interest\" and said \"really very little.\"\nMOSCOW'S PRE-MESSAGE COMMENT: Broadcasting a \"note on international affairs from\nNEW TIMES,\" Moscow on Wednesday tells North American listeners that \"the U.S.\nGovernment, which promised to shower prosperity and happiness on all its satellites\nand the colonial countries thrown in, is, it appears, itself unable to make ends\nmeet.\" Contending that the budget was one of the big problems facing the White\nHouse in preparation of the President's message to Congress, the Soviet radio\npropagandizes that \"revenues are insufficient to cover the colossal expenditures\non armaments and war preparations, on the cold war, and on the aggressive foreign\npolicy.\" Moscow's advice to the budget framers is \"to cut the insensate astro-\nnomical sums allocated for war preparations.\nPRAGUE AND SOVIET-CONTROLLED AUSTRIA: In addition to attacking the message for\nrequesting continuation of the Marshall Plan and of the allegedly aggressive policy\nagainst the democratic countries, the Prague radio predicts that the President's\nrequest for an extension of civil rights and abolition of the Taft-Hartley Act\nwill remain merely a \"scrap of paper.\" Exploiting the President's \"admission\" of\nan American \"economic reverse\" during the past year, a Soviet-controlled Austrian\ncommentator claims that \"the crisis movement\" is therefore no mere \"invention.\"\nHe expresses doubt about \"whether it has actually been possible to avoid any\nmajor effects of the crisis\" and apparently finds it significant that \"in his\nDECLASSIFIED\nAuthority E.O. 10501\nRESTRICTED"
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