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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\n\"REPETITIVE AND CONTRADICTORY ALLEGATIONS REGARDING SOVIET IMPERIALISM\": TASS\nbriefly summarizes those portions of the address which indicate intensified American\npreparations for war and maintains that \"a considerable part of the message contains\nrepetitive and contradictory allegations regarding Soviet imperialism and the threat\nof the capture of the whole world by the Soviet Union.\" Czech, Rumanian, and East\nGerman commentators also point to the President's warmindedness, but Berlin outdoes\nthem all in deriding the message. Re-broadcasting seven selected excerpts of the\naddress, Berlin interprets them with stereotyped arguments and with invective. The\nfollowing portion is typical of the broadcast:\n\"(Recording) 'This 82nd Congress faces as grave a task as any Congress\nin the history of our Republic.\n\"(Commentator) The man whom you hear speaking will have to build up a\nbig defense against the many attacks directed at him all over the U.S.\nThe most reactionary members of the Republican Party are attacking his\npolicy as violently as the leading men in his own party. For the past\nfortnight, a number of U.S. papers have demanded that he be deprived of\nhis post on account of the unbalanced state of his mind. Other U.S.\npapers demanded that he should be put on public trial because of his\npolicy. Apart from the few big U.S. industrialists the only people still\nsiding with him are his old friends from the gambling dens and brothels\nof Missouri and Kansas City where this man comes from, the man who will\nnow deliver the speech written by Averell Harriman and John (Biddle).\nThis man is Harry S. Truman.\n\"It is true: never before has a U.S. Congress had to face so grave a\ntask. Never before has this body taken so clear a stand against the\nU.S. people and the freedom of the nations of the world. Never before\nhas a U.S. Congress felt SO uncertain, never before have Congressmen and\nthe public gallery been forbidden to rise from their seats in the\npresence of the President for fear that someone might fire a shot from\nhis hip pocket. Never before have there been so few admittance cards to\na Congress, never before were so many members of the Secret Police present\nat a Congress sitting.\"\nBerlin goes on in this fashion, ridiculing as \"grotesque lies\" the President's\nreferences to the healthy condition of the United States, to progress made under the\nMarshall Plan, and to American friendship for the peoples of Asia. The President's\nremarks concerning defense preparations are conventionally likened to statements\nby Hitler and Mussolini.\nRESTRICTED"
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