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INTRODUCTION: To date there have been few monitored foreign broadcasts
about Churchill's Boston speech, and these have been along expected lines.
The Soviet radio has made only one brief mention, with no general comment.
USSR AND SATELLITE RADIOS: Moscow's only reference to the speech appeared in
a commentary on western Germany.. "Churchill, holding the firebrand of war
aloft, shouted about it (the formation of a west German puppet state and its
inclusion in the Atlantic military bloc) in his Boston speech."
The Soviet-controlled Berlin radio quotes TAEGLICHE RUNDSCHAU as asking
why Mr. Churchill chooses the United States for his bellicose speeches, and
says that the answer is quite simple-- "British politicians prefer to let others
fight for them."
A Vienna commentator points out that the speech "is again full of hate
and war talk; Atlantic Pact, cold war and war of nerves are the words most
frequently used."
Warsaw says that in the United States there is "freedom. for warmongers
only."
NON-SOVIET RADIOS: British press comments, as quoted by the London radio, are
generally favorable, with the exception of the Socialist REYNOLDS NEWS and the
DAILY WORKER; the latter calls the speech "senile babbling," "war hysteria,"
and "vicious." REYNOLDS NEWS says that Churchill is a bad counsellor of a.
world trying to find a peaceful solution to the difference between two systems
of society. "Full stomachs and steady jobs are stronger barriers to Communism
than atom bombs."
On the other hand, the MANCHESTER GUARDIAN notes that "the speech was in
the great tradition. Its historical sweep was wide." The TIMES notes that
Mr. Churchill has changed his position on one important point--he no longer
maintains that the western powers ought to profit by the advantage of the
atomic bomb to "precipitate the situation and seek a final settlement."
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