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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nwere able to fly to North Korea.\" And the commentator concludes that although the U.S.\nhas so far confined itself to dropping Colorado beetles over Eastern Germany, there can\nbe no doubt of its readiness to drop bombs; the Korean example shows that \"the flaming\ntorch of war respects no degrees of latitude or zonal boundaries.\"\nGROMYKO'S STATEMENT: Although most monitored Soviet-Communist praises and para-\nphrases of Gromyko's statement make reference to his claim of Soviet non-intervention,\nit is stressed in only three commentaries, one from Radio Warsaw and two from Soviet-\ncontrolled Berlin. The former contrasts the ostensible Soviet policy with the \"brazen\nintervention of the Americans\" in Korea, and declares that the peoples living under the\ncapitalist system \"are being pushed into the abyss of war by the American imperialists\nand their European satellites.\" The latter claim that the only reason the world is still\nat peace is because of the USSR's \"calm attitude\" and its \"unambiguous policy of non-\nintervention\"; by not falling for the U.S. provocation, the USSR \"has averted the\nimmediate danger of war.\" Criticism of the Security Council continues to concentrate not\non the U.N. as such, but on America's perversion of it into a \"tool utilized by the im-\nperialist circles... to unleash war.\" Radio Paris broadcasts the French Government's\ncritical analysis of Gromyko's misstatements of fact. And the Nationalist Chinese radio\nat Taipei reports British speculation as to the whereabouts of Vishinsky; \"unless he has\nbeen deposed, he must be on some special task elsewhere.\" According to one opinion, he\n\"is now in Peking carrying on negotiations between the Kremlin and Mao.\" (A previous\nspeculation, attributed to Baltic emigre sources, had him in Korea supervising Sovietiza-\ntion of the \"liberated\" areas.)\nJULY 7--A CHINESE \"DAY OF RALLIES AGAINST NEW AMERICAN AGGRESSIONS IN ASIA\": Peking\nannounces that the Chinese \"peace partisans\" have designated 7 July, \"the thirteenth\nanniversary of the anti-Japanese war,\" as a day for rallying \"all-out Chinese support for\nthe patriotic struggle which is now going on in Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, and\nJapan\" and of the \"liberation of Formosa.\" The substantive elements of this \"all-out\nsupport\" are not detailed. But the people of China are directed to \"utilize their\nexperience in fighting Japanese aggression and to take the leadership in fighting aggres-\nsion in Asia. The following slogans are issued to mark the day: \"Unite, people of\nAsia! Stop American imperialist aggression! Oppose the lackeys of the American aggres-\nsors! The liberation movement in Asia is the protector of world peace! Long live the\nspirit of the war against Japanese aggression.\" The above-mentioned reference to Amer-\nican imperialism as a \"rat running through the streets of Asia\" also comes from Peking,\nwhich cries that as with a rat \"the Asian people are saying 'kill it.' ...the time is\ndrawing near for it to enter the grave.\"\nBELGRADE COMMENT: Monitored Yugoslav sources continue to present both sides of the\nsituation; but a recent commentary appears to favor the view of \"U.N. circles.\"\nRESTRICTED"
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