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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: There is a general tendency to juxtapose Mr. Truman's\nrecent statements on Soviet policy and Andrei Vishinsky's 15 October\nstatement on Korea; radios in the Satellite nations also examine Marshal\nStalin's 6 October statement on the atom bomb in this same frame of\nreference. The juxtaposition leads Western radios to conclude that Mr.\nTruman's pronouncements crystallize the West's feeling that armed strength\nis necessary so long as the Soviet Union obstructs peaceful relations.\nCommunist radios, on the other hand, vehemently defend Vishinsky's state-\nment by protesting the \"hypocrisy\" allegedly displayed by President Truman\nand Ambassador Kirk; they point to the time-worn proofs of Soviet peace-\nableness, in which category they include Mr. Vishinsky's statement and\nMarshal Stalin's interview in PRAVDA.\nTo date Moscow has not elaborated on the Vishinsky note nor do any\nof the radios expand on the points set forth in that note. Western radios\ntend to dismiss it as propaganda, although London expresses the hope that\na United Nations promise not to unite Korea by force might bring about an\narmistice \"near the present line.\"\n\"THE DIALOGUE THAT FAILED\": Western sources are pointedly critical of\nthe Soviet Union's decision to make propaganda capital of Ambassador Kirk's\ninitiative; they see this decision as further evidence that the USSR does\nnot really desire a peaceful solution in Korea or to the problems that\nobstruct Soviet relations with the West. The Paris L'AURORE (independent-\nrightist) observes that \"the desire for peace of the United States has\nseldom been shown more clearly\" than in Ambassador Kirk's appeal. The\nreply \"proves that Soviet Russia not only does not favor, but opposes all\nuseful discussions aimed at facilitating relations between nations. The\ndemonstration is clear enough to rid us of our last illusion and of our last\nbelief in this false and ceaseless propaganda from behind the Iron Curtain.' =\nWest German radios note that Vishinsky's statement leads to nothing but\ngloom concerning future two-camp relations. Ankara, sharing this gloom,\nmaintains that the Soviet Union, like all dictatorships, must spread fear\nand hate if it is to survive; like a \"microbe it has to prove its existence\nRESTRICTED"
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