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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nabout the American economy, they do not ignore his foreign policy statements. Typical\nof the Soviet line is the charge that the foreign policy part of the message is a\n\"frank admission of the fact that the U.S. intends to go on with its policy of en-\nslavement under the Marshall Plan which constitutes a weapon in the preparations for\nanother war and is called upon to wreck the economy of Western European countries.\"\nFamiliar \"evidence\" is cited in support of this charge: the allegedly harmful impact\nof ERP on West European countries where the living standard is declining and unemploy-\nment growing; the American creation of a world system of bases; the allocation of three-\nfourths of the American budget for \"the arms race, preparations for a new war, and\nplans for world domination.\nThe charge that the U.S. is preparing for a new war, however, is not emphasized\nin Soviet broadcasts. Nor does Moscow use its hitherto standard theme that the U.S. is\npreparing for a war against the USSR and her Satellites. (This theme appears occasion-\nally, however, in Satellite radio broadcasts.) The President's references to Communism\nare virtually ignored. Only TASS, in a transmission to the local Soviet press, mentions\nit briefly and charges that Truman \"portrayed in this lying light the 'danger'\nthreatening the nations endeavoring to liberate themselves from the imperialist yoke.\"\nMos cow also avoids completely the President's statements about atomic energy. Only the\nCzechoslovak radio refers to the \"catastrophic failure of U.S. atomic policy in the\npast year.\" And the Hungarian radio is the only one to note that the \"President did not\nmention a single word about the Soviet Union's possession of the atomic secret....\"\nTRUMAN'S \"HYPOCRITICAL\" DEVOTION TO PEACE: The Soviet radio makes frequent charges\nthat the \"peaceful intentions\" expressed by Truman are nothing more than a hypocritical\nsmokescreen to disguise the American striving for world domination. And TAEGLICHE\nRUNDSCHAU, the Soviet Army organ in Berlin, is quoted to the effect that \"people who\nlooked no further might even think that he is listening to one of the progressive\npartisans of peace\"--a statement suggesting the reason for Moscow's frequent attempts\nto deny the peaceful intentions expressed by the President.\nWESTERN RADIOS: A French-controlled German broadcast hails the message as \"some-\nthing akin to a great ideological approach to world issues\"; and a Tel Aviv commentator\nsays that the President \"proved once more that he was a sworn friend of the working\nmasses of the United States.\"\nRESTRICTED"
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