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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\n- 2 -\ndefeat for the \"aggressive\" policy of the Western imperialists and warmongers. It\nis of interest that some of the Satellite radios refer to the \"historic victory of\nthe People's China\" as one of the factors that influenced the Western Powers \"to\nreturn to quadripartite talks.\" Other factors cited are: \"first, the Soviet Union's\npersevering peace policy\"; and \"the influence of the enormous successes of the fight\nfor peace all over the world which reached its climax in the Paris and Prague Peace\nCongress.\"\nTHE COUNCIL OF FOREIGN MINISTERS: As indicated above, the NEW TIMES article sees\nhopeful possibilities in the re-convening of the Council of Foreign Ministers; and\nit concludes that \"the Four-Power decision referring to Germany might become a\ncornerstone in a postwar settlement.\" But the Soviet radio also quotes Soviet-\ncontrolled German radio and press attacks on the Bonn Constitution, which is linked\nin turn to the issues to be discussed at the CFM meeting. One Berlin commentator,\nfor example, castigates General Clay, \"who... is today still trying to present the\nForeign Ministers in Paris with a fait accompli. His masterpiece is the so-called\nBonn Constitution, a cuckoo's egg which the four Foreign Ministers ought to ignore\nif they are earnestly anxious to reach agreement on Germany in the interest of\npeace.\" Other Soviet-controlled German radio broadcasts pursue relentlessly this\nlong-established Soviet campaign for \"German unity,\" relating this issue to the\nforthcoming CFM meeting in Paris.\nBroadcasts from Satellite radios in Eastern Europe make more general references\nto the Paris CFM meetings. They are explicit and definite, however, in identifying\nthe Potsdam agreement as the key to the Soviet position at the Conference.\nRESTRICTED"
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