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INTRODUCTION: During the past five days the chief developments have been a virtual
disappearance of Soviet-Comunist effort to "prove" U.S. aggression, an increasingly
close tie-up of the Stockholm Appeal (condemming the first user of the atom bomb as a
war criminal) with the "monstrous" possibility of actual American use of the bomb in
Korea, and increased attention--in both camps--to the possibility of arming Germany.
Communist radios are silent on Nehru's effort to negotiate peace; Western-oriented
sources discuss it, with mixed reactions. Communist radios are also silent on the
British effort in Moscow, and Western sources devote very little attention to it.
Moscow asserts that the U.N. effort to obtain general support constitutes "intolerable
pressure" by the U.S. and that even the "lackeys" of the U.S. in the rest of the world
are unwilling to send troops now that it has become clear that the action in Korea is
not just a "parade-ground war."
DECLINE IN EFFORT TO PROVE U.S. AGGRESSION: Until as recently as 12 July the
Soviet and other Communist radios devoted a fair amount of attention to alleged evi-
dence that the U.S. was in fact the aggressor in Korea. "Confessions" by South Koreans,
the visit of Dulles to Korea, and other asserted facts were claimed to prove a long-
premeditated invasion of the North. Even from the beginning, however, the great
majority of broadcasts used the standard Soviet technique of assuming that the Soviet
version of the facts is self-evident and that "everyone knows" that the U.S. was the
aggressor. Since 12 July, the latter technique has been used almost exclusively; "the
foul aggression of American imperialists" is referred to in innumerable contexts as if
it were now wholly beyond the need for any further proof.
THE PEOPLES OF THE WORLD CONDEMN THE FIRST USER OF ATOMIC WEAPONS: While refer-
ences to the atom bomb in the Korean context are still infrequent, there is for the
first time an appreciable number of them. In conformity with the previous enormously-
publicized campaign in support of the Stockholm Appeal, the possibility of American
use of the bomb in Korea is denounced by Soviet radios as "monstrous," "cannibalistic,"
etc. It is compared with poison gas and the torturing of prisoners: "This demand is
in no way exceptional. It is based on international law. The atom bomb must be out-
lawed in the same way as poison gas was outlawed; in the same way as it is forbidden
to torture or kill prisoners, loot civilians, or bomb Red Cross hospitals." Secretary
Acheson's opposition to the Stockholm Appeal is treated as virtually an endorsement
of the bomb. "Men such as Churchill, Bidault and Schuman openly call for the use of
the atom bomb now, at once, immediately. One might have simply ascribed this to the
hysterical ravings of cannibals and misanthropes"-but Acheson also is a party to it.
"According to Acheson no holds are barred in war."
ARMS FOR GERMANY AND JAPAN?: In both camps there is heightened interest in the
possibility of the military involvement of Japan and Germany, especially Germany. Some
Western sources clearly call for the rearming of Western Germany, although usually
with an avoidance of the word "rearm." For instance, West-German papers are quoted as
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