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oral society, reverses our stress:
In the United States and England it is the freedom of
expression, the right itself in the abstract, that is valued.
. . . In the Soviet Union, on the other hand, the results of
exercising freedom are in the forefront of attention, and
the preoccupation with the freedom itself is secondary. It
is for this reason that the discussions between Soviet and
Anglo-American representatives characteristically reach
absolutely no agreement on specific proposals, although
both sides assert that there should be freedom of the
press. The American is usually talking about freedom of
expression , the right to say or not to say certain things, a
right which he claims exists in the United States and not
in the Soviet Union. The Soviet representative is usually
talking about access to the means of expression, not to