WORLD RADIO REACTIONS TO U.S. MILITARY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
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Monitored:: Western Eur?opeau radio broadcasts continue to
ignore the Military Assistance
Program as a topi> for news and comwent. Sole exceptions are a ParlarrlevieW of a 13 June
article in 'LE1iriaARO by Paul Reynaud, who is quoted as making a "veritable appeal" to
'Congreass for speely action in rearming Europe and a RASTZR RACHRIC$TEN eonment that
American aid is %o only thing capable of guaranteeing Western European safety. The Soviet
radio continues show interest in Western European military developments, 3.,--trgely as
evidence of the. a ressivoness of the North Atlantic Pact, but little specific oo eat is
given to the Military Assistame Program. South American transmitters ignore the topic
ennti.r.ely. South?orean transmitters publicize President Rhe 'a reiterated pleas for
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American military aid, but other Far Eastern radios avoid the subject.
: According the
issue of IGAR 'contained a "veritable appeal" to Congress f Paris radio; the 15 nude
fr~ Paul Reynaud, who warned
that if the Ane'i one delayed help to Western Europe until iC'was again neo~esary to liberate
it, they would fbil "rescuing'a corpse." U. Reyilaud asked: "Will the Coargriie'of the United
States refuse I,to :follow President -man who stated last Saturday that his country has
the duty to arm tlzb Europeans too enfeebled by the war to 'be able to arm t3 meelvea? Or
will it resign itself to see Western Europe invaded and forsaken, end liberate it later with
its armies, as in 1944? To make it short, will American aid intervene before the invasion
or afterwerde " -
The Swiss paper, `,B SLFRNACMICHTEN,' according to the Aerne radio, said that Europe is
wat~~ing with 'keen interest econcmic, military and politicali developments in the United
States. "For tbiJnozt few yearn at least American aid is the only thing able to guarantee
the safety of (Western Europe.... Only when 'u rope knows what it can count on will it be
possible to work, put a program for a long time ahead."
Mrt,t?tored radio reports on the discussions in various West Fu>ropeen Parliaments on the
1949.30 military'; udgets make no reference to :Joint military! action nor to the com ii.ttmenta
of the various co}natries under the Military Assistance Program.
A? AuU,' public ItI of the Turkish Foreirrn 'sinister, discusses the Turkish-PLreneh-British
All.i.ance of 1939'n the ' light of current developments, according to Ankara radio. The
paper) conch?dea'... t revision of this agreement, particularly of that section freeing Turkey
f'ro'm Action which would entail hostilities between her and Russia, is unnecessary, since it
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is likely that any Soviet aggression would most likely be directed against or spread to
Turkey. "The revision of the agreement from this point of view would possibly constitute
an unnecessary provocation for Russia against Turkey."
b. Soviet and satellite Reac 4ons: Soviet broadcasts give considerable attention to
Western military moves as evidence of the aggressive nature of the North Atlantic Pact and
its members. But Moscow tends to belittle the practical significance of Join' m13$tary
action, and a 25 June TASS transmission tells of growing diseention in the Wasters Union
military staff. The Continental members of the. Brussels Pact, M. the broad st, are
indignant orer the refusal, of Britain to supply arise on credit to her allies. T n' herr,
differences between the Brussels Powers and the United States continue to grow:
"The hopes which the governing circles of the Western *icm countries placed on their
patron from across the ocean for a rain of dollars poising down after the con-
cluricn of the military treaty were not justified."
Several Soviet broadcasts discuss the alleged failure of the British and Dutch Army
recruiting campaign, ascribing this to the reluctance of youth in these countries to
becoming cannon' fodder for the American imperialists. Moscow reiterates familiar charges
that the Americans are sponsoring the reorganization and re-equipping of the German,
Austrian and Japanese armies.
No monitored broadcasts Loos Satellite transmitters are concerned with the Military
Assistance Program, directly or indirectly.
Editor's Note: Because the last survey of world radio reactions to the Military Assistance
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