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    "ocrText": "--4\ntendencies and factors, American observers point to the following:\n1. Serious differences between the United States and other members of\nthe Atlantic Pact in the question of Far Eastern policy.\n2. Britain's vacillation in regard to the extent of the armament program\nand the tendency toward greater independence from the United States.\n3. French opposition to the remilitarization of Germany.\n4. The lack of real unity between the United States, Great Britain, and\nFrance concerning the Soviet Union's latest proposal regarding Germany.\n5. The strengthening of the supporters of Schumacher in Western Germany,\nwhich, according to the American press, complicated the whole program of\nGermany's rearmament.\nThe correspondent of the newspaper CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR, in a report\nfrom London, advises Washington to take into consideration the fact that even the\nright-wing representatives of the British Government, like Bevin or Gaitskell,\nwould like to apply to American military aid a formula which would make it possible\nfor Britain to appear not as a poor relative but an equal partner. One must not\ndeny, the correspondent writes, that a rebirth of the spirit of independence is\nevident in Britain, and this will, probably, slightly affect the foreign policy\nfrom now on. With the stopping of Marshall Plan aid, the correspondent goes on,\nthere will apparently be a slackening of those impulses which initially affected\nBritain's foreign policy when great attention was paid to the wishes of Washington.\nThe UNITED PRESS correspondent reports from London that an English spokesman\nhad allegedly said: \"There is no doubt that our economic situation has greatly\nimproved during the last six months and our need for aid under the Marshall Plan is\nat present not very great. One can presume that Britain will not only be able to\nlive without this help, but will be able to carry the main part of the 3-year\narmament plan.\" Just imagine what moral encouragement this would be for the\nBritish. The British would raise their glasses in all the pubs in England with\nthe words: \"At last we no longer depend on the Yankees!\"\nThe CHICAGO DAILY NEWS correspondent, writing from Paris, points out that one\nof the reasons why the military organization of the Atlantic Pact is on the verge\nof bankruptcy is that the Pentagon ignored a number of its allies. \"The sharp\nquarrel on the question of the remilitarization of Germany, which has brought the\nwhole military planning to a dangerous deadlock,\" the correspondent writes, \"is\nthe result of the Pentagon's one-sided decision that Western Germany must raise\n10 divisions."
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