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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Comment on the President S conference with Prime Minister Attlee\nand on the President's 30 November statement on the atom bomb drops in volume.\nWestern radios insist that the President and Mr. Attlee must give primary consider-\nation to the fate of Europe and to Europe's opposition to the use of the atom bomb.\nBritish and Indian newspapers hope for negotiations with Peiping while the French\nL'AUBE (liberal-Catholic) and press sources in Ankara, Madrid, Taipei, and Athens\nurge Mr. Truman to stick to the principle of peace based on right in drafting any\nproposals to the Soviet Union.\nCommunist sources continue to ridicule the conference with Prime Minister Attlee,\nwhich L'HUMANITE says is further proof that the Korean war is not a United Nations\naction. Moscow continues to sidetrack the atom bomb issue, even in references to\nthe President's 30 November press conference, while it gives unprecedentedly wide\npublicity to the PRAVDA editorial ridiculing Mr. Truman's references to the peaceful\npolicy of America.\nTHERE MUST NOT BE ANOTHER MUNICH: L'AUBE, warning that a new Munich would be\nmost dangerous, urges the President to negotiate, discuss, and mediate while bearing\nin mind that \"it is not only peace which is to be defended today, it is also freedom. 11\nIt cautions against any kind of agreement which would dishonor the West while allowing\n\"the warlike party\" to be strengthened. The Madrid ARRIBA describes Prime Minister\nAttlee's visit as a \"mission of appeasement\" which will ultimately bring disgrace to\nBritain, and the semi-official Ankara ZAFER calls for discussion of \"ways in which to\nbring Russia, who is handling the strings of this puppet, to her senses. = These\nstatements are more explicit in their opposition to appeasement than were the earlier\nexpressions of the widely-held feeling that Peiping and Moscow are responsible for\nthe present critical situation.\nMOSCOW IGNORES THE ATOM BOMB: Radio Moscow's silence on the President's reference\nto the possible use of the atom bomb appears more deliberate and pointed when juxta-\nposed with the heavy publicity given what Moscow describes as the President's \"illogi-\ncal\" claim that America seeks peace. The brief 3 December PRAVDA editorial, which\nridicules the President's 30 November reference to American hopes for peace, has been\nmore widely disseminated than any other single article or commentary available in the\npast two years. Furthermore, a PRAVDA article describing American opposition to Presi-\ndent Truman's 30 November \"threats toward China,\" is like the above-mentioned editorial\nin that it fails to mention the atom bomb. This failure to acknowledge the President's\natom bomb remarks, while consistent with Moscow's usual evasion on questions of atomic\nwarfare, appears significant in view of the present critical situation.\nRESTRICTED"
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