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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nbutton war which would allegedly demand no sacrifices at all on the part of the U.S.\nbut would be something in the nature of an air promenade of bombers--like a U.S.\nversion of Hitler's notorious blitzkrieg.\" (This is consistent with the standard line\nof Radio Moscow which previously, but infrequently, has pointed to the importance of\nmanpower in warfare--as did an initial Soviet-controlled German comment on the\nPresident's decision.) Petrov, however, does not elaborate. But he does warn that it\nwill be impossible to escape the horrors of a war that may be unleashed by the U.S.\nimperialists' use of either \"atomic diplomacy or the hydrogen bomb. = He also pro-\nclaims that although \"the camp of peace and democracy stands opposed to war it is\nfirmly confident of its strength (and) its final victory should war be unleashed.\"\nAMERICAN AIMS--(3) TO INTIMIDATE THE FAINT-HEARTED ABROAD: \"The myth about the\nhydrogen bomb,' says Petrov, \"is also intended for export beyond the borders of the\nUnited States. American diplomacy, which failed so completely with its atomic black-\nmail, is looking for a new bogey to scare the faint-hearted.\" Consequently, the\n\"hydrogen bogey\" has been seized upon by all the warmongers, \"frightened as they are\nby the mounting popular movement for peace. = But since Wall Street was not able to\nalarm the peoples of the world by the atom bomb, it is concluded that it will be\nequally unsuccessful with \"its fairy tales about the hydrogen bomb. The champions of\npeace are not the kind to be frightened easily.'\nTHE NEED FOR PEACEFUL AMERICAN-SOVIET COOPERATION: Toward the end of Petrov's\ncommentary, he considers the desirability of \"adjusting\" American-Soviet relations--\nwhich desire he attributes to \"ever wider masses of Americans (who) demand the\nbanning of the atomic weapons and the establishment of strict international control\nover this ban. Having thus defined the Soviet position as the only right one, he\nconcludes: \"The U.S. people understand that only on the basis of peaceful cooperation\nbetween the United States and the USSR and the countries of People's Democracy in\nEurope and Asia on the basis of cooperation between all countries can peace be\nsecured. If This theme is echoed occasionally in Satellite comment. And TAEGLICHE\nRUNDSCHAU, Soviet army organ in Berlin, recalls that exactly a year ago Stalin sub-\nmitted to Truman a proposal for a joint meeting.\nINADEQUACY OF ANY AGREEMENT ON INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC-ENERGY CONTROL: From Western\nradios come occasional warnings against staking too much on the idea of securing\ninternational control. They are based primarily on the assumption that any agreement\nwould probably be circumvented by the Soviet Government. \"I do not think the Amer-\nicans could ever bring themselves to trust Soviet Russia,\" says a Manila commentator,\n\"or to believe that somewhere in some secret corner of that forbidden land the\nSoviet Government was not violating the agreement.\"\nRESTRICTED"
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