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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Western radios have little to say about Mr. Dulles' address of 29\nDecember. Nor have they taken up the controversy over foreign policy now going on in\nthe United States; the 20 December address of Mr. Herbert Hoover received little\ncomment, while subsequent statements by Secretary Acheson and Senator Morse, among\nothers, have also gone unnoticed.\nWhile the Communist radios have been prompt and explosive in their references to\ndissension and defeatism in the United States, they have avoided discussion of the\nvarious points of view put forth by American statesmen and have insisted that all\nAmerican leaders, whether Republicans or Democrats, are warmongers bent on spreading\naggression. Their references to the statements of Mr. Hoover, Mr. Dewey, Mr. Dulles,\nand Mr. Acheson dwell on the defeatism which they claim is widespread in America and\non the defeats suffered by Washington policy makers; the word \"isolationism\" occurs\nSO rarely as to suggest a desire to avoid any impression that the United States might\nreally withdraw from the world-wide war against Communism.\nMR. DULLES \"ADMINISTERED A WISE CORRECTIVE\": London and Rome press sources find\nin Mr. Dulles' address a \"wise corrective\" to \"isolationist feelings,\" but they do not\nmention Mr. Hoover by name. The London DAILY TELEGRAPH (independent-Conservative)\nbelieves that Mr. Dulles irrefutably proved the falsity of the isolationists' position,\nwhile the Rome IL MESSAGERO (independent) says that Mr. Dulles' address and Secretary\nAcheson's end-of-the-year statement gave a long-needed \"clear picture of the attitude\nwhich the United States will take toward the main international problems.\" (In comment\nkeyed to Mr. Hoover's address Paris and Tokyo pointed out that the address made it\nessential for Western Europe to prove its determination to resist Communism by taking\nsteps to develop its own defenses.)\nMR. DULLES \"PREPARED FOR NEW ADVENTURES\": In its first reaction to Mr. Dulles'\naddress Moscow claims, on 1 January, that \"the apostle of aggression, Dulles, 11 urged\nthat \"the already hysterical public opinion of the United States should be prepared\nfor new adventures.\" The broadcast follows the propaganda line applied by Communist\nradios to the earlier Hoover and Acheson statements in dwelling on the bankruptcy and\naggressive intentions of American foreign policy and in avoiding any explicit discussion\nof foreign policy debates in this country. Like the Soviet-controlled Vienna radio,\nMoscow insists that Mr. Dulles revealed that the United States \"intends to use others\nto pull its chestnuts out of the fire; it is going to use its Marshallized satellites.\"\nThis represents another application of the conventional claim that America plans to\nuse its friends and satellites for cannon-fodder.\nRESTRICTED"
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