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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nU.N. (as) a fait accompli.\"\nPRAVDA's charges that Truman's decision represents \"direct aggression\" and that it\nshows \"in all clarity that the imperialist warmongers are determined to achieve their\nends and not stop half way,\" are essentially part of a long-familiar Soviet propaganda\npattern. The only new element is the use of the qualifying word, \"direct.' Although\nMoscow has repeatedly accused the U.S. of \"aggression\" and \"aggressive\" policies, it has\nrarely, if ever, accused the U.S. of \"direct aggression.\" Otherwise, however, PRAVDA's\ncharges are no stronger than the usual charges made in many other contexts. But\nPRAVDA's relative restraint is more than compensated for by two Radio Berlin commentaries\non the President's decision. Utilizing the highly-charged phrases mentioned in the\n\"summary\" section above, they appear intent upon arousing their listeners to a fever\npitch of fear and hatred of the U.S. \"criminals\" who are bombing Korean women and chil-\ndren and who \"even now\" may be shelling villages and towns on the Korean coast. \"Today\nit is the brave, courageous Korean people. Tomorrow it will be we who are to be hit.\nDeclare your passionate sympathy with... the Korean people. Down with the U.S.\nimperialists, says one commentator. \"Why should there be another holocaust asks the\nother. It is also claimed that \"the American war ordered against the Korean people by\nthe President\" had been \"long prepared and dastardly calculated.\"\nMonitored Pyongyang broadcasts have not yet mentioned the President's decision.\nBut a \"central press review,\" broadcast seven hours after the decision was amounced, re-\nfers to the alleged \"mobilization\" on 27 June of American warplanes which shot down a\nNorth Korean fighter near Seoul. \"The Korean people are becoming more indignant at such\ninterference, = says Pyongyang. \"Aggressive American imperialists, withdraw from our\ncountry immediately! Take your bloody hands off our Fatherland immediately!\"\nExcept for a Radio Berlin appeal to sign the Stockholm Appeal to ban atomic weapons,\nnone of the above broadcasts SO much as mentions the atom bomb.\nWESTERN-ORIENTED COMMENT: Among the favorable reactions to the President's\ndecision, there are positive references to America's regained prestige and to the\npossibility that \"action might succeed where words have failed.\" Most of the allusions\nto the resulting \"seriousness\" of the situation do not elaborate; nor do most of them\nevince any impression of panic. A Bogota newspaper, however, is said to have issued a\nspecial edition with the banner headline, \"World War-The Third World War Has Broken\nOut in Asia.\" A Swiss commentator feels that \"the Korean war might now well become a\nsecond Spanish war.\" And a Madrid commentator regards the President's step as one that\n\"might bring about a conflagration.'\nRESTRICTED"
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