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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nSUMMARY: A flood of Western-oriented comment approaches unanimity in support of the\nPresident's \"historic decision.\" Among other things, his \"far-reaching initiative\" and\n\"resolute attitude\" are praised as showing that \"Truman has shouldered his responsi-\nbilities as a great statesman.\" Some of the comment continues to be tempered by\nexpressions of uneasiness about the possibility of a larger war; but such expressions\nare considerably less frequent and less fearful than was the case prior to the decision.\nRealistic appraisals of the risks involved are paralleled by determined relief that the\nfree world is finally making a stand against Communist aggression. A new element of\nWestern uneasiness, however, has to do with the \"slowness of the results from the Amer-\nican intervention.\" And at least one Soviet-controlled source (Radio Leipzig) has\nboasted about the North Koreans' \"victorious progress\" despite the use of American\nplanes.\nRadio Moscow distributes, without comment, the official Soviet reply to the orig-\ninal U.N. resolution on Korea. Yesterday's PRAVDA article continues to be widely broad-\ncast. The Soviet radio's only other independent comments have been in the form of\nanother PRAVDA article and a TASS dispatch, both designed to demonstrate that the\n\"American-directed\" South Korean attempt \"to invade the north was preceded by lengthy\nand intensive actions.' Monitored North Korean broadcasts have not yet mentioned the\nPresident's decision. Pyongyang makes much of Seoul's capture. Satellite radios,\nespecially in Eastern Germany, continue their fearmongering campaign to arouse the\n\"peace partisans\" against Truman's most recent attempt \"to kindle a third world war.\"\nThey hew to the line that the alleged South Korean invasion of the north had been long\nprepared by the American imperialists and that the President's decision is an act of\ncriminal, provocative aggression.\nAMERICA'S \"LONG AND INTENSIVE PREPARATIONS\" AGAINST NORTH KOREA: Neither Moscow\nnor its Satellites (including Pyongyang) makes much of an attempt at factual documenta-\ntion of the fiction that North Korea was the victim of an attempted invasion from the\nsouth. Instead, they try to give the idea an aura of credence by a propaganda line which\ntakes the \"attempted invasion\" for granted and which at the same time surrounds it with\na screen of secondary alleged facts tending to distract attention from the central\nissue. The above-mentioned PRAVDA and TASS pieces, for example, utilize foreign press\nsources to \"prove\" that the American imperialists had long prepared for the \"invasion\"\nby aiding in the organization and development of the South Korean army; but they do not\nonce attempt to document the idea that such an \"invasion\" actually occurred. PRAVDA's\n\"evidence\" consists, among other things, of a recent ASSOCIATED PRESS photograph.\nAccording to PRAVDA's Berlin correspondent, Korolkov, the photograph shows John Foster\nDulles standing in a South Korean trench \"examining a map of the forthcoming military\nactions. He is surrounded by American officers, one of whom is \"surveying through\nfield glasses the country in front of him, the territory of the Korean People's\nRESTRICTED"
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