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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: The volume of comment on the President's 15 December radio address\nis moderate. Western sources applaud the address as proof of American leadership\nof the democratic camp and as another indication that there will be no appeasement\nof the aggressors. Moscow has not reported the address or commented on the state\nof emergency, but other Communist radios, to a large extent ignoring the actual\naddress, concentrate on rhetoric and bombast to denounce President Truman as a\nplotter of world war. There is widely-expressed sympathy for the American workers\nwho will shoulder the burden of Wall Street's preparations for expansion of aggression.\nANOTHER WARNING TO MOSCOW: Paris, Athens, Ankara, and Rome approve the 15\nDecember address because it serves as another warning to Moscow and Peiping that\nthe West is determined to resist aggression and because it represents a definitive\nre-statement of American policy toward Europe. Ankara quotes ZAFER (semi-official)\nas endorsing the decision \"to take the strongest measures in the shortest possible\ntime, 11 while Athens, declaring that the address represents a step on the road to\nworld peace, finds in it proof that the Americans \"are worthy leaders of the world\nof democracy.\" There are repeated calls for similar mobilization measures in other\nnations.\nPRESIDENT TRUMAN'S \"GOEBBELS-TRAINED MENDACITY\": Although the Soviet radio has\nnot yet reported or commented on the address, other Communist sources, including\nBerlin, Bucharest, Warsaw, Vienna, Prague, and the clandestine \"Free Greece\" and\n\"Free Azerbaijan,\" are vehement in their vilification of the President. Again and\nagain they pose the rhetorical question \"who is planning aggression against the\nUnited States?\" and again and again they point to U.S. aggression in Korea to prove\nthat the U.S. is the guilty one. Generally ignoring the actual contents of the\naddress--with its implications of American strength--they sympathize with the\nAmerican workers who will stagger under the Wall Street-imposed mobilization order.\nThe Communist radios also claim that last week's railroad strike was a protest over\nthe anticipated declaration of a state of emergency. There are occasional references\nto Mr. Truman's alleged attempt to restore America's waning prestige by assuring\nEurope of American military might, and Berlin and others liken the address to the\nmilitaristic propaganda of Goebbels and Hitler.\nRESTRICTED"
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