FOREIGN RADIO REACTIONS TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S INAUGURAL ADDRRESS -- NO. 2

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• Publication Date: November 11, 1998
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SUBJECT Voreign Radio Reactions to Presid6nt
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vernMrut organ, sgLIatoo t
e Inaugural
All dress with "Increased haos in a world ahic.t i
split into two camps. ..
And over
the YfQl;Acanc1 D monitored floreign radio ro&.,zst.ionts co
ntinue to divide along th
ese "i:svo~ ca~pn
lines. Yt is of inter oat, howavor, that gon-erel3
.y the negative com n rtt f c
within the
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Soviet orbit appears to he somewhat Loss 4.trioli.
e and Em-looping than has b
een ttae on
DTI a rioua occ-.).Sions,. 'fruman's policies" s'or ezac p
lea Dare not explicitly id
ntiff.ed with
all tlrmongeriln.~ and L?her are such rolati.?r ly mil
d etst,entes as the Czoch
radio's
ObservRtiat1 that ttTrumanI used the word ' Peace In
failed
all 9ortL' of cornioetions
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to hew n wav to bring a
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'PP USSR RADIO. To clhtel, ?Aoscont s only monitored
ment appears :i_n en o9'
co
era iso
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ntphtforward sumary f the Inaugural. Address.
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Noting that "Truman saij
3... all
?
.
ooonle hn+ve tho right to think freely ale: to expr
ess, their thoughts froely
,9 the US SF
?rpd?to tells Its domestic audience that ??1t: spite
l
of this assertion,, Truman
procaedrd
lnrlously to attack Comm) visa no pdvoc;ai,ing war."
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The Soviet radio also t
11a
iomemtic listeners that. during the Inr uuration
parade, a ci.v-11 rights or
anization
ais-rrt uted leaflets demanding the franchise for
D.C. reside1r1ts, the aboli
tion of th e
?rift-Rert1ev Law, the det'ent a of civil rights, 8 r
d the 11OL,id1atioi'1 of the
Mouso Gcscnmittof;)
on Un-Anericnn'Activities.
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