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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nFacts are stronger than Truman and speak for themselves.\" But another Soviet\ncommentator predicts that the \"capitalist\" Congress, as much of a \"docile tool of\nWall Street\" as is Truman himself, will support the program enunciated by the\nPresident in support of the \"monopolists' plans for world domination.'\n\"AMERICAN THOUGHT-CONTROL\": A Soviet commentary by Nitin, the only one con-\ncerned exclusively with \"exposing\" the President's references to democracy and\nliberty, is broadcast only to North America. According to Nitin, the following are\nsome of the \"true facts\" about liberty in the United States:\nThe average American, \"constantly shadowed,\" lives in tension and fear.\nTelephones are tapped; and FBI agents even record the books one reads.\nThe slightest sympathy with progressive ideas and the least show of dissatis-\nfaction with things as they are results in FBI blacklisting.\n\"Every progressive organization\" has been declared subversive.\nOld civil servants are dismissed \"on the informing of hired provocateurs and spies.' =\n\"Reactionary, terrorist organizations like the Ku Klux Klan, the American Legion,\nand others are becoming more active.\"\n\"The past year has witnessed further intensification of the anti-Communist\nhysteria, as illustrated by the Communist Party leaders' trial.\n\"Defense Secretary Johnson maintains a special army of spies to shadow workers\"\nwho \"fight for their vital interests against the employer.\"\nIllegal police seizures and searches are everyday affairs.\nWhat is the reason, Nitin asks, for all this thought-control and persecution? The\nanswer repeats a standard Soviet theme: \"The U.S. imperialists want to launch\nanother war; they want to compel the younger generation to shed its blood for Wall\nStreet interests, and that is why the reactionaries hound progressive Americans.\"\n\"VIRILE AND ENCOURAGING\": A French press service transmission quotes the in-\ndependent-conservative Lisbon 0 SECULO to the effect that the \"President's message\nis addressed not only to the earth's mighty but also to the workers and little\npeople\nIt should be an example to all those who govern the nations. Reporting\nfavorable Swiss press reactions, the Berne radio cites the opinion that \"Truman is\nnow sitting more firmly in the saddle than was ever the case with Roosevelt.' Radio\nTokyo finds that the messages \"have shown great confidence.'\nRESTRICTED"
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