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    "ocrText": "PRAVDA Editorial\n\"TRUMAN'S STATEMENT AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE-- A NEW WAR HYSTERIA\"\n\"On 30 November Truman made an official declaration in connection with\nthe latest events in Korea which not only repeated former statements to the\neffect that the U.S. Government does not intend to renounce its mission in\nKorea, but promised still greater expansion of the American Army and continued\nimperialist maneuvers in Korea and with regard to China.\n\"In this statement Truman gave a detailed account about his intention to\nhold peace negotiations, but his insincerity is obvious.\n\"Everyone knows that all the proposals made by the Democratic Korean\nGovernment and the Chinese People's Government are aimed at a peaceful solution\nof the Korean question. Why did Truman decline the peaceful proposals made by\nthe Koreans and the Chinese if he really wanted peace?\n\"Truman accuses the Koreans and the Chinese of 'aggression.' This can\nonly provoke a smile. Did the Koreans or the Chinese attack the United States?\nAre not the troops which are now in Korea and in Formosa U.S. troops?\n\"Then who is the aggressor if not Truman and his friends MacArthur, Harriman,\nand others?\n\"Should not China, which borders Korea, have the right to defend its\nfrontiers, if the United States--which is 5,000 miles from Korea--has the right\nto 'defend its security' at that distance from its frontiers?\n\"Where is logic, where is justice, and who but a madman could believe in\nthe peaceful intentions of Truman and his friends? Truman needs war, not peace,\nand that is why he is indulging in this new war hysteria.\""
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