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    "ocrText": "EXCERPTS OF FRENCH PRESS REACTION CRITICAL TO AMERICA\n(From July 1 to August 31, 1945)\nOn August 23 President Truman made a statement at a press conference\nin which he criticized the French press. This criticism ran approximately\nas follows: \"I have only one thing to say to you representatives of the\nFrench Press. I hope you will begin to give America a square deal. \" Some\nof the anti-American - or anti-Big Three comments in the French Press are\nlisted below. These are excerpts of editorials and commentaries appearing\nin the French Press which were quoted over the Paris Radio intercepted by\nFBIS monitors.\nJuly 1, 1945: Paris, in the French Home Service, 2:05 EWT broadcast\nan editorial by Henri Benazet which reads in part as follows:\n\"This said, it must be admitted that Russia's policy in Germany,\nhowever open to discussion, has the elementary but decisive merit\nof existing. The Moscow leaders know what they want, and they are\nfollowing the path they have chosen with rigorous logio and iron\ntenacity. Alas, the same cannot be said of London and Washington\nImprovisation, confusion and chaos reflect the Allied policy in the\nWestern zone, even if we admit that there is one\nJuly 7, 1945: Paris, in the French Home Service, broadcast a review by\nMarc Blancpain, of which the following is an excerpt:\n\"'Are the Allies going to deliver Europe of Franco? This is a\nquestionmany French papers ask today (July 7) . Most of them,\nhowever, betray their skepticism and anger. The reaction of the\nFrench press to the new development -the request of the U.S. Ambassador\nin Madrid for substantial changes in Franco's Government, and even\nallegedly the disbanding of the Falange -is unanimous. \"\nJuly 24, 1945: Paris, in the French Home Service, 2:05 p.m. EWT, broad-\ncast an editorial by Emile Dana, of which the following is an excerpt:\n\"And Truman himself when hoisting the Capitol flag over the ruins of\nBerlin said with repeated emphasis that the U.S. was not seeking in\nthis war any territorial or strategic advantage But when one knows\nthe care that the Allies of the new world have taken in waging war\nagainst Japan as exclusively as they could, 8. care which was illustrated\nby thousands of obstacles raised in the way of French and even British"
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