FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO TRUMAN'S AND ACHESON'S ASNE SPEECHES

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
• Content Type: REPORT

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FOREIGN DOCUMENTS OR RADIO BROADCASTS
SUBJECT FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO TRUbWN'S
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I'NPRODUCTION: It hee taken the Soviot radio en nnusuelly long time--Five da~s-,'~._~,__~
spoach, And then 'in a Vale ti I' Z ~~' ~'" ?'1
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AND ACHESON'S ASNE SPEECHES
n Orin commenter tipA,;,.
PRAVDA artiolo by Marinin the folloxi'ng day, it treat? the President's 'end
Acheaon'e speeches
ae txo of a kind--"once more revealing both Trumon and Acheson ae rabid
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xarmongars" and ae "obviously seized xith alarm." over the eucoeee'~of the "international
of Peace " Typical~v, neither the Moscow radio nor the monitored
Cc?muniet souroas outside of the UlSSR attempt to anaxor the charg~ee against Soviet-
.
Communism exoapt by such standard epithets as "slanders" and "lies,"; instead, by the
amiliar use of highly generalitad dSetortions of
1luetrating in their vary replies the propaganda
motives, intentions, and realities--'
choraoterietioe desor?ibed by both tho'
resident end Mr. Aoheson--Moecox and its non-Soviet~lcounterparte
launoh their standard
actic of propaganda attack, NotgWOrthy ie the complete avoidance',oF any referenoe to'tha
onoopt of freedom xhich figured so prominently in both speeches.
Monitored broadcasts Prom foreign radios in the Western Norldjare almost unanimous'
n their approval of both speeches, The mayor exception ie a Madrid oommantary xhioh
arcastiaally examines Acheson'e six lines of recommended eotion grid oonal.kdes that eaoh
f them results in "Communir~m coming out the ~rinnar" nor "banePitting in rho end." The ',
ANCIiESTER GIPARDTAN applauds rho Frosidont's intention to counter the Soviet propagandists'
age, of Amerioe, but warns that auoh "sneer campaigns" ae those relc~ntly dirooted at
hasor_ and Jeeoup "hava boon r gift to the Communists and Nava made obeorvore'in otherl'
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"TOTAL P~~'A~iA11DA Ttl T~ 81~tVICE OP AA~BI~P^: As xith almost ell of Soviet-Commun__,.~ropa=
?andaj~,l+-hatw'ar ? caevont~t2io~repliee ion and that Che epeochea' era simply further evidence
of American aggression, domination, and xarmongeri^.g. This point ie made, ho.rever, primarily
by the devioe of dogmatic assertion rather than by any eubatontive'analyele of the speeches'
contents, There is, 1~ fact, a dearth of th'e latter, suggesting e',deeire to dietrect attention
from the epeeohe?' specific substance and to'channel attention instead into the long-established,
slogan-like formulae that are constantly epp~lied to American policy and actions. Marinin
distorts the President's etatemonL about br.eeking doxri barriers to free communication, changing
it to "removing Prom the path of American imperialism the national'frontiere of individual
cnuntriee." Simllarlyy he trenaforme the President's reference to'increeeed American-foreign
contacts inL?o "sending to various oountrioe a ooneiderebly larger number of its egente,"
Finally, Aohoeon'e recommendation for expanding the internationalpolitical machinery we
already have is twisted into "the eggreeeive!North Atlantic bloc,thet instrument for the un-
leashing of a war, is to be extended further,"; end on the basis of this slanted parephreee
Marinin claims that among the six linos of action on the Truman-Acheson agenda is "expansion
of the armaments :ace, encoursgoment of militarism, and development of the cold war." Aside
from some derogatory Satellite radio allusions to Truman'e end Acheson'e "exaggerated paeudo-
poace campaign," there are few other references to the aubetantiv4'element of the speeches.
"THE SHARP ftECESBITY OF SELLING UNNANTED MERCHANDISE": Zorin exa nee the ceases that "forced
Truman end Acheson to become engaged in this',little-respected business of advertising American
democracy." Doing eo, ho resorts to the favorite device of putting words of "admission" into
the mouths of American spokesmen, In this sees, it !e Truman zrho 'by hie alleged statement
"that on the propaganda campaign depends tho'auoceee of the Marshall Plan and the aid program,"+-
was "thus forood to admit the Pailuro of tho~Marehall Plen end the growth of reeletanoe to the
aggressive meseuree of American imperialism." Therefore, eeye Zorin, the ozplanation for the
"advertising campaign" lies in the "sharp necessity of selling this unwanted merchandise. .
It is a well-established fact that the goods which sell easily doinot require special advertis-
ing, end only those goods require advertising for which there is no sale."++~ In addition to
the "unwanted merchandise" identified by Zorin with American foreign policy, Marinin irate the
following elements of the "notorious American 'democracy': the system of lynch trials, the
Ku Aux ffi.an gangs, raoiel persecution, chronic mass unemployment; 'and poverty for millions."
SPEECHES "ADHIT" THE SiJCCESS OF THE "PEACE CAMP": Currently, the volume of the Soviet radio's
pease oampaign materiel, aeaoalatod with the Stockholm Resolution to condemn the first user
of atomic ~roapone, h.ae r~aahod rte all-time highest pock. And throughout all of the Soviet-
Communist replies to the spoeohes rune the theme that by attaaking',Communlst propaganda Truman
and Aahoson in effoot admitted and aonfirmed'~,that the "posse movement:" ie having great ~ucce~~--
and that they oonaidered it "serious enough to require the mobiliietion of the preen, radioo,
sad agents of imperialism egainet it" by "spreading morn lies throughout the world." But such
lies, 1t le said, will only result in popular "contempt" and the further growth oP the "mighty
aemp of peace and don+ocrecy.
"MR. ACH:~.SON HAS H!T UPON THE FORMULA"s Typical of the earaeem that pervades the Madrid radio's'
oommentary on Aoheeon'e epeeoh le the following paeesge: ~
"He bol4eves that the democraoiee should put into practise a eiz-point formula which
hap gust occurred to him. .., As regards the first point, faith and freedom, wo ',
do not believe it will be difficult to carry out, Faith in freedom, of course: On
the national front, Communism thrives, ~,hanke to the freedom granted by the demooretic
netione. On the international front, Shalin has bestowed ups all peoples the moat
sinister of e11 freedoms, the freedom oP Poor, All have Seith in the freedom to
do ghat either their altruism or their baeeneee dictates, And it ie Communism that
bonofite in the end."
.-- ..a ~ .... i'4I1f~PUauoi~VU ~ua~ sue iTOelaonTi ec~ually ealdi "The Harebell Plan, military aid,
oint Four--these,,, depend for their euocese on the understanding end support of our own
aitizene and those of other countries."
Tho irony of such a statement ooming from a Soviet propagandist. is apparently lost on Zorin.
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