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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nistics are said to have become particularly apparent in \"the Acheson era.\"\nCANNIBALISTIC AMERICA: The cannibalism of Americans in Korea-who barbarically\ntorture and brutally slaughter the Korean people--is coupled with the heartless\narrogance of capitalists who force other nations to provide cannonfodder and who glee-\nfully rub their hands over the prospect of war-increased profits. Although the\nmonstrous white American cannibals are not generally depicted as fighting the yellow\nKoreans, one LITERARY GAZETTE article approaches this racist type of propaganda by\nimplying that the U.S. \"adventure\" in Korea is a present-day instance of the \"white\nman's burden\" theory of the 19th century.\nIn further documentation of America's alleged barbarism, Soviet broadcasters\ndevote increased attention to the contention that the atom bomb is a weapon for\nterrorizing helpless civilians and not for attaining military objectives. There is\nimplicit identification of the atom bomb with the United States; and there is\ncautionary specificity in descriptions of the effects of atomic bombs which did not\nappear before.\nCONTINUED AVOIDANCE OF AMERICAN STRENGTH: Moscow continues to avoid any\ngeneralizations on America's real or potential military strength. Discussions of\nmobilization in this country are confined to the profit-seeking motives of the\nmobilizers or to their hopes to militarize the country. The fact that other nations\nare sending troops to Korea is minimized, as a source of increased strength, by\ndescribing this contribution as \"insignificant\" when compared with the growing\npopular opposition to the Korean adventure. American pressure is invariably said to\nhave been the only means by which even these nominal contributions could have been\nproduced. And there is increasing attention to American defeats on the fighting\nfronts.\nRESTRICTED"
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