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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nIS IT ENOUGH?: There are four available comments on the adequacy of the amount\nproposed for military expansion. A Swiss writer speaks of the large amount as \"sur-\nprising.\" On the other hand, the West-Berlin TAGESSPIEGEL believes the amount is dic-\ntated by \"sober realization,\" and is a sum which will not be considered by Congress as\na maximum program which can be cut down; the French LE MONDE (conservative) describes\nthe message as \"only the sign of a start in low gear--others will follow if necessary\";\nand the FRANKFURTER ALLGEMEINE ZEITUNG considers the proposed effort definitely \"in-\nsufficient.\" The writer draws a sharp contrast between the first two World Wars and\nthe present situation:\n\"The United States has fought in two World Wars. In both cases it fought on the\nside which had at its disposal a sweeping superiority both in men and material.\nThis belongs to the past. One does not know yet whether the Americans understand\nquite clearly this revolution in the balance of forces.\"\nWILL OTHERS SHARE?: British and German papers show concern over whether the\nAmericans may have to shoulder too much of the burden alone. It is reported that \"most\"\nof the British papers \"emphasize the need for the other partners in the United Nations\nto do their share.\" On the other hand, the French FRANC-TIREUR (non-Communist Left)\nclaims that in France, \"in the present stage of wages, resources and possibilities, a\nlarge-scale rearmament policy would mean sacrifices infinitely bigger and more serious\nthan those courageously accepted by the American people. Such a policy would simply\nplay into the hands of Stalinist Communism, reinforced by the resigned army of all those\nwho would feel no urge to defend miserable conditions of existence.\" And similarly,\nthe Italian IL MESSAGGERO (Independent) claims that Italy has made all the effort she\ncan and now can hardly raise her military budget to the required level.\nSOVIET SOFT-PEDALING: There has not yet been any Soviet editorial comment on the\nmessage, and news of it is confined to a single TASS dispatch. This is consistent with\nthe recent Soviet policy of not discussing land strength, or any other kind of strength\nexcept atomic strength, and of not publicizing the possibility that Western strength\nmight become greater than it is. TASS describes the message, along the usual lines, as\n\"enlarging the scope of American aggression,\" \"pushing the United States along the\nroad of war mobilization,\" and \"placing a fresh economic burden on the shoulders of the\nworking people.\"\nRESTRICTED"
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