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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nAfter a lapse of three days--a not unusual delay--Soviet broadcasters\ninitiate comment on the 16 February PRAVDA interview with Marshal Stalin.\nThese widely broadcast commentaries pursue two lines: first, they underscore\nStalin's declarations of Soviet peace-mindedness; and second, they rebuke\n\"the bourgeois press\" for \"trying to distort the contents of the interview\"-\nespecially the references to demobilization. Stalin's concluding reminder\nthat \"war is not unavoidable\" is maximized in one commentary which rebukes\nWestern leaders for devising \"probably the greatest, the most shameless lie\"\nabout alleged Soviet war preparations.\nPRAVDA's comment on world reaction to the interview points out that \"it\nis no accident that the endless stream of comments lays special stress on\nStalin's historic words that at the present time a world war cannot be re-\ngarded as inevitable.\" Interest in Stalin's statement is said to be \"all the\ngreater because these statements clearly indicate the way to peace and the means\nfor ensuring peace. If PRAVDA also rebukes the State Department and the Foreign\nOffice for \"the miserable tricks\" by which they try to divert attention from\nthe problems raised by Stalin; specifically for the failure to answer Stalin's\nchallenges concerning a peace pact, control of atomic weapons, arms reduction,\netc.\nDespite the large volume of broadcast time devoted to underscoring Stalin's\nstatements, certain parts of the interview receive little stress. The attack\non the United Nations is glossed over, the references to American fighting\nability are ignored, the attack on the Latin American nations is avoided, and\nthe statements concerning a negotiated settlement in Korea are not mentioned.\nFurthermore there is no mention of Germany or of the Four Power talks.\nRESTRICTED"
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