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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nthat the USSR did not have the bomb, and asserts a rising opposition to the\nPresident's policy:\n\"Truman has obviously miscalculated, trying for the sake of his\nshady political game to dish up to the world as a sensation the\nexistence of the atomic weapon in the Soviet Union. He appeared\nbefore the American public and before the entire world in an\nabject coat of mail of a knight errant of the notorious atomic\ndiplomacy, whose crisis is becoming evident. Only a few days\nback, the ruling American circles denied the existence of the\natomic weapon in the Soviet Union. The illusion as to the\nmonopoly on the possession of the atomic weapon became one of\nthe sources of the delirious imperialist strivings of the ruling\nAmerican circles and one of the mainstays of 'atomic diplomacy,'\nwhich made a principle out of the so-called 'cold war.' That is\nthe policy of blackmail and international ventures.\n\"How, then, do the ruling American circles conceive the further\ndevelopment of foreign policy? Truman evidently did not reckon\non obtaining in response such a sharp criticism of the U.S.\ncourse of foreign policy from considerable strata of the American\npublic. Even certain layers of the ruling circles perceive the\ninevitable catastrophe in a further continuation of Truman's\nline, and therefore insist upon this line being abandoned\n=\n(References to Lawrence and to Lippman). (TASS, in English to\nNorth America, 2 October 1949. Also broadcast to Soviet home\naudience, and in Czech, German and Spanish.)\nEhrenburg: As is often true, Ilya Ehrenburg departs from the usual Soviet\npolicy in the concreteness of his anticipation of military events; he\nclearly anticipates a possible use of the bomb in retaliation:\n\"Everyone knows that if the United States robbers start a war\nit will not be confined to the old world, but will extend to\nAmerica. Sensible people fully realize that from Moscow to\nPhiladelphia it is as far as from Philadelphia to Moscow\nWe are not asleep. We are not looking the other way. We are\nwatching you, and every move you make. We will not allow you\nto lift your arm; (if you do) we will knock the knife out of\nyour\nhand = (Soviet Home Service, 2 October 1949)\nRESTRICTED"
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