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-2- policy there will be cause for rejoicing. It should be the policy of all allied countries'. "No comment has yet appeared in the in- fluential Liberal 'Toronto Star'. The Con- servative 'Globe and Mail' of that city refers to the complexities of the international prob- lems to be solved: 'Such complexities are to be examined not in criticism of the policy to which the United States is committed but in recognition of the difficulties which pursuit of that policy entails. At least five of the President's fundamental points are pro- vocative of continued division, for there is not between Moscow and Washington (or London or Paris) a mutual understanding of what is democracy' The 'Ottawa Journal' states that while 'cynics may look upon many of these points as nothing more than pious hopes or glittering generalities, the truth will re- main that this is the voice and conscience of the world's mightiest power, with that voice and conscience on the side of the right'. "Consul General summarizes 'Winnipeg Free Press' comment as follows: 'Time is over when generalities will suffice and American policy needs reexamination in the light of the President's speech more especially the in- consistency between the multilateral ap- proach sought in the Eastern European situa- tion and unilateral one adopted by the United States in the Far East'. "News treatment in the English-language press has evidently suffered somewhat from the time-lag between Saturday and Monday in the prominence given the address. The news stories are, moreover, in almost all cases accompanied by routine press summary from London reporting divided reaction on the part of the British press; the 'Reuter report on the subject as published being almost entirely made up of quotations from critical editorial reactions on the part of the 'Daily Telegraph1, 'News Chronicle' and 'Manchester Guardian' , emphases thus ARCHIVES KECORDE NATIONAL AND is SERVICE* sovennent

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