FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO RATIFICATION OF THE ATLANTIC PACT AND THE PRESIDENT B MESSAGE ON MAP

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
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rRQ1 JCTIA&s The Soviet reaction to ratif ieatio
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wimple, OVA widely publicized by the Raecoe'raaioil (1) {Ihoerioa ban gout saeam preparing
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Ganda fire ocyalns'f-the Military Aid P r o g r a m and ei Truasn'u manage oaa the subject,
Moooov charges that this is a program for dumping anti, r1. Ilod armaments at a handsome pro-
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esters llurope and that it is an attest poi enoego America's wavering
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European, "ag~iits" in the face of tre sndoue oppggitionl the Pact tram their Iapies, The
Satellite radios parrot Moscow in deMoribiina rant4aatiad or the Pact as nother stop
toward war" and in nreeintin a et....,:l --
Western European reaction to ratification is sh~ilstri0{
the poeeibility of Congrosaional ourtai3mont
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-a.vaa.l avliir minxuu, ur' wMA ATJAAl'.w rACT2 ow .. Ion are gfxiok and. uT>c1ni Ra in
agreeing that Sozeto ratifloation of Pa IA, >a~bas sa In Taw of the world.-wino
popular opposition to it. "A wcu?thless scrap ct pllter'! a typtoal brbsdcest, addisgz
"'File world mo-enent for peace dooaoe to failuxe'-th}lis, s ITS Pact of the Anglo-IAasezioan
inporialiste." Another typical Soviet T1ew bean ta; !t' at .1!1 langalages the day after
ratii'ication, statesa *Their fear ofj the steadi3T7] loco oriole iiepele the Amerioau
nonopolleto to accelerate their effort*' for a way icuti 1~Aeir di'tficulties,. in a mad
armazants race," A third Soviet liine~ of ?ttd~olc it Zti is to stress the all
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"coutradictioas" d1v2ALn the Peat al g stories, 10I it by the reported An lo.AsMrioan
dispute aver the sharing of ataaio secrets, echo the Soviet line
on retifioation of t h e Pact. W a r s a w points * I ., tk .Rte' ` io#n atosoio dispute alod warn
that a war "we ,cd" by the AmeriGani in zvrops'1rap3d'~ aaatleally iarolve thef Wes e
European dour triee. In Berlin, the Rod.. Arse ie r 8'~ mu repeats a Moscow charge
that ratification was intended to divert; attozttica la$.l;iare of Ana riloa is "styong.
arm" "Pace policy, particularly is Chiaao, ~ ! LF nee the strength of the world-
wi4e peace mavemenct" and des;oanoes flee .0 oe,17~4 .ALL' tie Pact.
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Aa~gag Western Svaro n rsacti nsthe Paris radio reports on Foreign Minister Sohuman'e
dertenne of the act in the each Parliament, including his assurance ,that there was no
p~ibility of admitting Germany into tho Pact I It also notes loon Blame etateaaent
that ratificeti?n should not inure the chances of a Western-Soytot rapprochement, but
n4ht imrome then. Norwegian Foreign Minister Lange says that ratification has
'1 teriolly IMP OVed" the world situation, while the Stookholz radio reports that Swedish
reCtion to ratification In "scat decidedly favourable, " with one reee rations "Kill the
Vat States back up the Pact with arms and supplies?"
F~3IIMei IAN'S MESSAGE CM NAP: !Xecageow chargea that MAP has two bo aia urpoooss
(1 to stimulate war hysteria and intimidate people with weak nerves, jamd (2) to support
tk governing cliques of Western Europe. TASS denounces the Prea ider'. rs manage for
aaaiiaunoing continued support for the UN., although everyone allegedly boons that U.s.
palicry is to bypass the United Natiosss. He In also accused of ignrnasig the fact that the
aim program will put a ver, heavy burden on the European countries. JSosoow ftcrthar states
ty4t the State Department pax hlet explaining I AP "frankly espressos the Administration's
anti-Soviet and anti-C uuniat policy" and that it "deliberately conceives of the arse
program as a assn of helping to bolster the sagging American occaw.~" Widest carrsnay
Ia Igiven to statements by Srwtore Taft, Capeha~rt, Vandenberg and others to demonstrate
tdat NAP will have a rough passage through Congress. Satellite out likewise stresses
tryi "violent Coiigreeeionnl argunente" that MAP will arouse; aid the Budapest radio
i 1 erpr ete the allure to iaorm Senator Vande-}berg in advance of the proposal as narking
"tlio and of the bipartisan character of the U.S. foreign policy."
vest Surosreen reaction to the President 'a message on MAP is tinged with anxiety about the
attitude of Congress. In F',ranoee the De Gaullist Wean states that it "would not be
sailefled with a Maginot Lima on paper," and oalls for a precise stateasnt of the
stegiosl role to be allotted to France and of the weapons to be supplied. The
ladepessdeut-loftiiet LIBERATION stresses that France is incapable of meting the annual
expense needed to create a modern arny, but Paris radio oossaentator Liomsl Durond contends
. Mr. Trwsan~0 program uaald bring arterial reinfaroomm~oct to the security of Europe
rigout affecting its eoona?io development. The London TIM concedes the "attractiveness"
ot,1vandenberg'sloondltione In appeasing Congreieional opposition but says they might be
"h3&4 daiger to Europe'. The DADZ TELEGRAPH sees same Justice in Tandenberg's plans
mat none at all in T1aft 'e.
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