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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Moscow, via TASS, has finally begun to report selected items from\nforeign press reactions to the President's announcement and the TASS communique.\nIn general, the publicized items reflect belief in the validity of reports about\nSoviet atomic accomplishments,* emphasize the necessity of banning the bomb as\nproposed by Vishinsky, and allegedly demonstrate that the U.S. has no intention\nof abandoning its cold-war policy. Moscow, however, has not yet exploited the\nrecent spate of Satellite press and radio opinions which emphasize: (1) the\ncrushing blow to \"atomic diplomacy and blackmail\"; (2) the reaffirmed Soviet peace\npolicy and a predicted peace-movement \"upsurge\"; and (3) the need for implemen-\ntation of the repeated Soviet proposals to ban the bomb. There has been little\nchange in the pattern of comment from radios outside the Soviet orbit.\nRADIO MOSCOW: To date, Moscow' only monitored comment appears as a brief\nintroduction to a TASS report of selected American press reactions. The comment,\nallegedly confirmed by the quoted items, holds that American business circles are\ncynically opposed to an increasingly demanded Soviet-American settlement of out-\nstanding problems--\"as this would lead to a reduction of armaments and would thus\nundermine the artificial support for American economy.\" In addition to relaying\nthe above-mentioned types of foreign press items, TASS also reports the following\ninteresting pieces: a Paris FRANCE-SOIR article about Soviet possession of\naircraft for transporting the bomb; the Delhi NATION's contention that the U.S. has\nnow been deprived of its military advantage, on which domination of the dollar in\nthe capitalist world has been founded; and the Bombay CHRONICLE's opinion that a\nturn has come in the destiny of such countries as Iran and Turkey, which \"hitherto\nlived under the umbrella of the American atom bomb.\"\nSATELLITE RADIOS: Jubilance, self-confidence, and self-righteousness together\nwith continued animus toward the atomic-blackmailing imperialist warmongers charac-\nterize the tone and content of Satellite comment, which is patterned on the follow-\ning themes (presented in approximate order of emphasis):\n1. Soviet Peacefulness: Soviet desire and efforts for peace constitute\nan ever-present claim. Soviet use of atomic energy for peacetime con-\nstruction work is contrasted with American emphasis on the bomb itself.\nAmerican use of the bomb for \"blackmail\" is compared with the complete\nabsence of the same in Soviet policy--despite the USSR's possession of\nthe bomb since 1947. The repeated Soviet proposals to ban the bomb are\ncited.\n*\nIncluding the Soviet explosion of an actual bomb and possession of it or the secret\nof its production since 1947.\nDECLASSIFIED\nRESTRICTED\nAuthority\nE.O. 10501"
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