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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Although the Moscow radio has not yet mounted a full-scale propaganda\ncampaign devoted to the current CFM Conference, the last few days have produced more\nfrequent Soviet commentaries about related subjects than has previously been the case.\nDuring 1-2 June at least five relevant commentaries have appeared. Concentrating on\nno single issue, however, they range from criticisms of the Western proposals for the\nunity of Germany, through attacks on the Western refusal to hear the German Peoples\nCongress delegation, to charges the Western Powers are hampering inter-zonal trade.\nSoviet-controlled German radios also devote a fair amount of attention to the Conference\nand related issues. While generally following Moscow's line, one commentator interjects\nthe warning that \"Berlin will never take on the part formerly assigned to Shanghai. ...\nThe inglorious end of the Western Powers' role in Shanghai should give them serious\nfood for thought.' The Satellite radios have issued relatively few independent comments\nabout the Conference. As do Moscow and the Soviet-controlled German radios, they report\nfully on Vishinsky's speeches. One Hungarian commentator, however, holds out hope of\na \"limited agreement\"; and another includes Congressional postponement of the Atlantic\nPact debates among the factors that \"prompt the Western press to proclaim the possi-\nbility of a limited economic agreement among the Four Powers.\"\nGERMAN UNITY, THE WESTERN PROPOSALS, AND MILITARISM: The familiar Soviet argu-\nments about German \"unity\" remain a constant element in Soviet and Soviet-controlled\nGerman criticisms of the Western proposals on the subject. In addition, there appears\nto be a slight tendency to return to the old charge, hitherto soft-pedalled during the\ncurrent Conference, that Western policy envisages a militarized Germany aimed at the\nSoviet Union and the New Democracies. A widely distributed Soviet commentary by\nLeontyev, for example, claims that the Western proposals \"are hailed by the militarist\nelements in Germany who talk quite openly of revenge and another war\"; he also refers\nto the \"failure to democratize Western Germany where the chauvinistic and militaristic\nelements are raising their heads.' Another commentator, Vinogradov, attacks British\nM.P. Harold MacMillan, former British Air Minister, for allegedly proposing the ex-\ntension of the Western Powers' military alliances to the whole of Germany and for\n\"waving aside the possibility of settling the German problem in Paris. Then, in the\nsame context, Vinogradov says:\n\"The Marshall Plan and the North Atlantic Pact are military-strategic measures\naimed at launching an aggressive war against the Soviet Union and the Peoples\nDemocracies. To draw Germany into their orbit would mean a repetition of the\nwell-known Hitlerite policy.\"\nA Soviet-controlled Berlin broadcast speaks of the successful popular German resistance\nagainst \"the Anglo-U.S. attempts to turn the whole of Berlin into a bridgehead in the\ncold war against the USSR....\" And a Rumanian broadcast charges that the Western pro-\nposals \"are merely aimed at incorporating the Eastern Zone of Germany into the anti-\nSoviet and anti-democratic Trizonia\nIf\nRESTRICTED"
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