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    "ocrText": "RESTRICTED\nINTRODUCTION: Disregarding the President's 9 September address, radios in Western\nEurope hail the announcement that additional U.S. troops are to be sent to Western\nEurope. Moscow and Warsaw, on the other hand, rebuke the President for openly revealing\nthat he has adopted the Hitlerite policy of \"guns instead of butter. \"\nGUNS INSTEAD OF BUTTER: Moscow claims that Truman's \"verbosity\" is in direct pro-\nportion to American failures in Korea and elsewhere. Moscow and Warsaw dwell on the\n\"guns instead of butter\" theme and on the profiteering theme; and they dwell at length\non the sufferings to be endured by workers in America and Western Europe SO that\nAmerican industrialists may acquire the profits for which they yearn.\nWarsaw and Prague claim that the President's address was delivered with the Foreign\nMinisters' Conference in mind: \"He probably intended that Bevin and Schuman should know\nat the moment of their arrival in New York the views and orders of their Marshallized\nsuperiors.\"\nREARMING OF WESTERN EUROPE: Moscow has not yet acknowledged the decision to send\nadditional divisions to Western Europe, but Prague and Warsaw associate the decision\nwith the President's address. Without discussing the substance of the announcement they\nidentify it with America's over-all aggressive plans and describe it as part of the pre-\nConference instructions to the Foreign Ministers.\nBerlin argues that the U.S. is opening a \"new phase in the systematic assembly by\nthe United States of military resources in the European theater of war. \" Washington\n\"dictators\" are said to believe that the U.S. will then \"be capable of starting the atom\nwar against the USSR recently openly demanded as a preventive war by Navy Secretary\nMathews. \" Berlin also adds that the Truman announcement \"has knocked the bottom out of\nBritish policy, \" for the Labor Government has not yet committed itself to the rearming\nof Western Germany.\nWest European sources welcome the decision to send more troops but they touch only\nbriefly and inconclusively on the question of rearming Western Germany. The decision is\nexpected to have a \"timely and tonic\" effect-- it is a psychological boost for the nations\nof Western Europe since it will provide a bulwark behind which they may proceed with\ndefense preparations. A Berne newspaper applauds the decision because it fills up the\nmilitary vacuum \"in the immediate vicinity of our frontiers\" which might \"be regarded by\na heavily armed opponent as an invitation to satisfy its cravings for power or ideolog-\nical plans\"; but it deplores \"the speeding up of the rearmament of Western Europe\" as a\n\"danger signal. \"\nRESTRICTED"
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