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    "ocrText": "- 2 -\nthe strength of the military forces lined up by the Pact, while the SUOMEN\nSOSIALDEMOKRAATTI (Social Democratic) is said to have declared that the reference\nin Article Five to joint defense in the event of an attack is \"a worn out phrase\nwithout much significance\" because attack is not defined. The journal concludes\nthat the Pact may increase the feeling of the security of the signatories, but\n\"from the point of view of the world at large\" it \"creates a feeling of war and\ndestruction.\"\nNEW CHINA NEWS AGENCY (Communist) characterizes the Atlantic Pact as \"an\nextremely hypocritical document (which) in effect tears up the United Nations\nCharter.\" Secretary Acheson's reference to revolutionary movements is said to\n\"mean\" that the United States can intervene and \"suppress these movements.\" The\ncommentary also points out that the Pact \"violates\" the Soviet treaties with\nFrance and Britain--a point not stressed by Moscow.\nForeign Minister Bevin's \"hasty\" correction of \"preventing peace\" to \"preserving\npeace\" is analyzed by Warsaw on the basis of \"Freud's theory\"; Warsaw's TRYBUNA\nROBOTNICZA is quoted as finding in the slip proof that the Pact's \"real aim is not\nto consolidate peace but to make the task of United States warmongers easier.\"\nInclusion of Turkey and Spain: AFP's Ankara correspondent reports extensive\nquotations from the official ULUS in which the daily suggests, somewhat\nbelligerently, that Turkey might be forced to accept a Soviet treaty \"similar to\nthat offered Norway,\" and demands that Turkey's western partners \"clearly define\ntheir intentions toward her. Assurances of American support no longer suffice,\nand neither do the proposals of the Truman Doctrine.\"\nMadrid avoids overt commitment by quoting New York opinion indicating the\nprobable inclusion of Spain while Moscow attacks the possibility as proof of the\nPact's hypocrisy."
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