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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nment that ratification should not injure the chances of a Western-Soviet rapprochement,\nbut might improve them. Norwegian Foreign Minister Lange says that ratification has\n\"materially improved\" the world situation, while the Stockholm radio reports that Swedish\nreaction to ratification is \"most decidedly favorable,\" with one reservation: \"Will the\nUnited States back up the Pact with arms and supplies?\"\nPRESIDENT TRUMAN'S MESSAGE ON MAP: Moscow charges that MAP has two basic purposes:\n(1) to stimulate war hysteria and intimidate people with weak nerves, and (2) to support\nthe governing cliques of Western Europe. TASS denounces the President's message for\nannouncing continued support for the U.N., although everyone allegedly knows that U.S.\npolicy is to bypass the United Nations. He is also accused of ignoring the fact that the\narms program will put a very heavy burden on the European countries. Moscow further states\nthat the State Department pamphlet explaining MAP \"frankly expresses the Administration's\nanti-Soviet and anti-Communist policy\" and that it \"deliberately conceives of the arms\nprogram as a means of helping to bolster the sagging American economy.\" Widest currency\nis given to statements by Senators Taft, Capehart, Vandenberg and others to demonstrate\nthat MAP will have a rough passage through Congress. Satellite comment likewise stresses\nthe \"violent Congressional arguments\" that MAP will arouse; and the Budapest radio\ninterprets the failure to inform Senator Vandenberg in advance of the proposal as marking\n\"the end of the bipartisan character of the U.S. foreign policy.\"\nWest European reaction to the President's message on MAP is tinged with anxiety\nabout the attitude of Congress. In France, the De Gaullist press states that it \"would\nnot be satisfied with a Maginot Line on paper,\" and calls for a precise statement of the\nstrategical role to be allotted to France and of the weapons to be supplied. The\nindependent-leftist LIBERATION stresses that France is incapable of meeting the annual\nexpense needed to create a modern army, but Paris radio commentator Lionel Durand contends\nthat Mr. Truman's program would bring material reinforcement to the security of Europe\nwithout affecting its economic development. The London TIMES concedes the \"attractive-\nness\" of Vandenberg's conditions in appeasing Congressional opposition but says they\nmight be \"highly dangerous\" to Europe. The DAILY TELEGRAPH sees some justice in\nVandenberg's plans but none at all in Taft's.\nRESTRICTED"
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