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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nThe first reactions from Western European and Far Eastern transmitters\nto the President's budget message were approval of the expressed determination\nto step up the U. S. defense effort and to strengthen the defenses of the\nFree Nations. Several commentaries noted that the United States is becoming\nmore resolute in its conviction that strengthening defense power is the only\nmeans of coping with the Communist menace. As is usual, (the prompt response\nfrom the Moscow radio to the 1950 budget message is the exception) there has\nbeen no comment from Moscow, other than an English-language broadcast late on\n24 January, and Satellite comment has been negligible.\nINSURANCE AGAINST WAR: A Baden-Baden commentator remarks that the fact\nthe United States puts internal tasks behind the defense program is perhaps\nthe best hope that a world balance can be created which will eliminate war as\nan instrument of politics, while DER TAG of Berlin especially appreciates the\nfact that the \"American people continue to be aware of their responsibility\nfor the security of the Free World.\" A word of caution is uttered by the\nDARMSTAEDTER ECHO which calls the President's address a \"warning to Europe,\"\nsince it contained the unmistakable implication that the United States expects\nall Nations receiving economic aid from America to make the maximum effort\nto overcome their \"serious economic difficulties.\"\nPRESIDENT'S COURAGE: The Paris LA CROIX writes that to present such a\nlarge budget only a few months before election time \"represents an act of\ncourage on the part of Mr. Truman,\" and the Tokyo JIJI SHIMBUN says that,\nsince this is an election year, \"it would, of course, have been advantageous\nfor the President to cut expenses and reduce taxes, II yet the fact that he is\nasking for increased taxes and expenditures \"simply indicates that the U. S.\nGovernment is resolved to strengthen the defenses of the Free Nations.\"\nCONDITIONED REFLEX: The first monitored Radio Moscow notice of the\nbudget message, an English-language commentary beamed to North America, says\nthat \"every time President Truman opens his mouth, the American taxpayer\nreaches for his pocket; it is a conditioned reflex, = and the broadcast says\nRESTRICTED"
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