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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: During the past five days, the Soviet, Satellite, and Soviet-controlled\nGerman radios have touched only briefly upon the problems uppermost at the CFM sessions\nduring this period--that is, the related problems of Berlin and the veto. The most\npointed Soviet commentary on the CFM Conference as a whole has been a 7 June broadcast\nof a PRAVDA article written by Yuri Zhukov, PRAVDA's Paris correspondent. Zhukov\naccuses the Western delegations of propagandizing and of attempting to utilize the CFM\nrostrum \"for purposes which have nothing in common with preparations of agreed-upon\ndecisions on the most important international issues.\" He suggests that \"narrow economic\nissues--and first and foremost, trade between Western and Eastern Germany\" constitute\nthe \"real business\" that brought the representatives of the Western Powers to the Con-\nferénce table; to this he associates Walter Lippmann's \"alarm (about) the fact that\nthe Western world, including Germany, has almost simultaneously entered a period of\nslump.\" Otherwise, the Soviet, Satellite, and Soviet-controlled German radios treat\nfamiliar themes in a familiar manner: protests against the Western policy of \"dicta-\ntion\"; charges of Western violations of the Potsdam decisions; pleas for German unity;\nand protests against the Western occupation statute and the Bonn Constitution.\nTHE \"REAL BUSINESS\" OF THE WESTERN DELEGATIONS: Zhukov's widely distributed\nPRAVDA article cites Walter Lippmann in \"direct confirmation\" of the thesis that the\n\"real business\" of the Western delegations consists only of \"limited economic questions,\"\nincluding the question of trade between Western and Eastern Germany. Lippmann is said\nto have \"sounded the alarm because the Western world, including Germany, is almost\ncertainly entering a period of recession with shrinking trade and sharpened competition\nfor markets. He is further quoted to the effect that the West German state will be\nfacing a crisis if it cannot sell its manufactures and that the U.S. also is interested\nin finding markets for its own exports in the face of the impending slump.\nWESTERN \"PROPAGANDA\" PRIOR TO COMING TO THE \"REAL BUSINESS\": \"Why did the Western\ndelegations deem it necessary to spend so much time before coming to the 'real business?\"\nasks Zhukov. He answers this question with the charge that \"Acheson delivered a number\nof speeches meant by no means for the hearers around the Rose Palace table but directed\nover their heads to the readers of U.S. and pro-U.S. papers published in Western\nGermany.\" He allegedly wanted to convince the Germans that the Western Powers stood\nfor German unity and German self-government. But \"all this heap of flowery verbiage\nwilted and dried up as soon as the Soviet delegation directed on it the clear spotlight\nof merciless analysis. Vishinsky demonstrated the insincerity and hypocrisy of those\nwho, while asserting that the Germans must govern themselves, are in fact doing every-\nthing they can to deprive the Germans of the possibility to do so.\"\nTHE \"METHOD OF DICTATION\": As has been true of Soviet, Satellite, and Soviet-\ncontrolled broadcasts since the Conference began, Zhukov devotes attention to the\npolicy of \"Diktat\" that is pursued by the Western delegations. Noting Acheson's\n\"demand... for immediate ratification of the Atlantic Pact,\" the Soviet commentator\nDECLASSIFIED\nRESTRICTED\nAuthority E.O 10501"
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