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he contends:
"But the bulk of them have undergone an astonishing metamorphosis. The out-
lines have become blurred and misty, or else they are embedded in a maze of
reservations and stipulations which reduce their solid significance to nil."
Lemin also predicts that the proposed new taxes will be shifted to the
shoulders of the working people and that the "ominous reservations about re-
strictions on the right to strike" will make meaningless the repeal of the Taft-
Hartley Act.
Turning to American foreign policy, Lemin charges that Truman gave his
blessing to the policy of foreign expansion and to the armaments race--which is
equivalent to "renouncing any improvement in the material condition of the
American working masses." Other Soviet broadcasts, following Lemin's general
line, allege that "the message openly admits that in the future, too, the U.S.
Government will carry out a policy directed towards world supremacy and the
destruction of the independence of other countries." Moscow notes, with approval,
Wallace's criticism of the message.
SOVIET SATELLITES: Among the Satellites, only Prague and Soviet-controlled German
reactions have been monitored to date. Following the general Soviet line, Truman
is said to have "tried to prove that U.S. capitalism was not doomed to failure"
(Prague); and, according to the Soviet-controlled German radio, the alleged con-
tradictions in his speech arose from the fact that he defended the capitalist
system and all its "attendant evils" while at the same time "pretending to fulfill
the election promises"--promises merely intended "to keep the voters' expectations
aligned to their high taxes." Prague also includes the unusual charge that "the
Taft-Hartley legislation is to be replaced by the Wagner Act which is even more
hostile to organized labor."
According to the Paris radio, the French Communist press, keying its reaction
to orthodox Communist tenets, is pursuing the line that "Truman is undertaking the
impossible task of having the capitalists admit the principle of redistribution of
their wealth-which would destroy the political and social power of these capital-
ists." And the British DAILY WORKER sees an irrevocable contradiction between
Truman's domestic proposals and his "preparation for war abroad."
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