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INTRODUCTION: Among monitored foreign radio broadcasts since the weekend,
only Moscow has maintained persistent attention to the State-of-the-Union Message.
Previous Soviet "exposures" of its significance are linked to the President's
budget proposals--particularly his defense recommendations-which Moscow cites as
further evidence "of the reactionary policy at home and the expansionist foreign
policy of the ruling circles of the United States." The as yet limited non-
Communist foreign radio comment on the budget is also concerned primarily with the
defense, and related, recommendations. Most of this comment is favorable; but, as
the BBC describes British press reactions, some alarm is expressed over the
possibility of a new armaments race. Regarding foreign radio comment about the
State Department changes, the most noteworthy fact is Moscow's complete avoidance
of such comment on its own responsibility. To date, the Soviet radio has done no
more than report the Italian Communist UNITA's interpretation--that Marshall's
resignation signifies a "crisis in U.S. foreign policy" which has been marked by
"ignominious fiascos," but that it "does not mean that this policy will be changed."
THE STATE-OF-THE-UNION MESSAGE: The NEW YORK TIMES reports that Soviet economists
recently met to find out why the U.S. has not yet had the predicted economic crisis.
Whatever their decision, the Soviet radio sticks to its thesis that Truman revealed
"the growing instability of America's economy," that the "American boom, stimulated
by a furious armaments race, holds the menace of another even more severe economic
crisis," and that the "impasse in which the monopolized U.S. economy has found it-
self" is shown by both his State-of-the-Union and budget messages. Moscow also
persists in its attempts to puncture "the impression that Truman's message contained
the promise of innumerable reforms to increase the well-being of the U.S. people."
To this end, it is repeatedly emphasized and elaborated that "the budget... gives
priority to military expenditures, (which) is the most characteristic feature of
U.S. Government expenditure in recent years."
THE BUDGET MESSAGE: Invidious references to American defense and international
expenditures have been a constant element of Soviet radio propaganda about the
United States. Regarding the President's current budget recommendations, these
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