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    "ocrText": "RESTRI\nthe diplomatic losses suffered at the General Assembly session. The\nMadrid YA, \"sources\" in Taipei, and the ALGEMEEN DAGBLAD of Rotterdam all\npoint to the political advantages gained by this initiative. The Rotter-\ndam daily observes that Stalin wanted above all to please public opinion;\n\"if the Americans refuse the proposed rapprochement, the USSR would be\nat an advantage\nIf\nStalin Dispels \"the Dark Clouds of War Hysteria\": Although Moscow\nviews the interview as a \"new, bright manifestation\" of the Soviet policy\nof peace, it is outdone in effusiveness of praise by the radios of the\nEast European satellites. Bucharest declares that Stalin \"gave renewed\nfaith, courage and strength to the people; his words were like the sun\nthat drove away the dark clouds of war hysteria prevailing in the war\ninstigators' camp. If The same imagery is employed by the Sofia\nRABOTNICHESKO DELO, which proclaims that \"with his brief and extremely\nclear words, the great chief of progressive humanity made the best New\nYear's present to the peoples, indicating possibilities of clearing war\nclouds in order to avoid new bloodshed and to maintain the lasting peace\nso strongly desired by hundreds of millions of simple people. If There\nare frequent references to the clarity and brevity of Stalin's words and\nto the consistency of Soviet foreign policy. Berlin, which claims that\nthe interview is an incentive for further popular resistance to such\nwarmongering schemes as the contractual agreements, notes that Stalin's\nwillingness to confer with General Eisenhower, \"who has fascist ways,\"\nis documentation of Soviet desires for peace.\nAs is often the case, Radio Moscow seems concerned to counter Western\npress skepticism. A 29 December commentary denounces such \"war profiteers\"\nas \"the Dulleses, Trumans, and McCarthys, the Pentagon and Wall Street\" and\nargues that they are inciting \"the big lie campaign\" to \"becloud the issue\nand distort the meaning of Stalin's words.\"\nRESTRICTED"
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