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    "ocrText": "-5- -\n6. Department of State Pamphlet Explains MAP. -\nThe Department released in July a report analyzing\nin detail the draft military-assistance legislation\nsent to Congress by President Truman. The report\npoints out that the Soviet Union and international\nCommunism can be expected to attack the Military\nAssistance Program just as they attacked ERP and\nthe Atlantic Pact, for they will recognize it as a\npositive step toward sustaining the morale of free\nnations and toward increasing their resistance to\nCommuniet propaganda.\nAn index to the paper's indictment of Soviet\naggressiveness is afforded by the following excerpt:\n\"Free peoples were alarmed by the outright\nmilitary pressure the Soviet Union brought to\nbear upon Iran. They were shocked by the domina-\ntion through Soviet-supported minorities of\nPoland, Bulgaria, Hungary, and Rumania and by\nthe almost total suppression of individual free-\ndoms in those countries. The reality of the\nthreat implied in these actions was brought home\nagain in the sudden destruction of democratic\ngovernment in Czechoslovakia, the manipulated\ndivision of Korea, Soviet intransigence in\nGermany, and the recent blockade of Berlin\ncalculated to force the Western occupying powers\nout of that city in violation of agreements.\n7. Assistant Secretary Allen Comments on the\nVoice of America. - Assistant Secretary of State George\nV. Allen, at a news conference of June 13, a report\nof which was published by the Department in July,\n= ARCHIVES RECORDS SERVICE\" RATIONAL AND\nestimated that between 25 and 30 percent of the VOA\nsomething\nbroadcasts are getting through to the Russian people,\nwho possess about 5 million radio receivers. Mr.\nAllen said that the Soviet Government (knowing that\nwhat we offer and hope for the peoples of the world,\nparticularly behind the Iron Curtain, is something\na great deal better than those people have ever known,\nor know now) is making every effort to convince its\npeople and everybody else that the US program is\nthoroughly reactionary. 7\nPThe Military Assistance Program, Submitted by the\nDepartment of State on Behalf of the Interdepartmental\nForeign Military Assistance Coordinating Committee\n(Department of State publication 3563).\n7Bulletin, July 11, p. 32."
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