THE ECONOMIST, OCTOBER 22, 1966

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• Publication Date: October 22, 1966
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It is nevertheless surprising, in?view of
all the criticism of the European inter=
national technology groupings like Eldo
(for rockets), Esro (for space research) and
Cats (for telecommunications) whose nar-
rowly conlpartmdintalised interests make
them cumbersome and crisis-ridden institu-
tions, that the commission should not also
be advocating a more broadly based science
policy for the community. But the present
period of common market stagnation throws
into unusually high relief the normal per-
sonal and institutional jealousies, as well as
the national loyalties, of the commissioners.
The common market commission is doing
its best to fend off Euratom's claim to start
a science policy, while M. Robert Marjolin
is a good European only when it suits the
French government. There is no sign that
General de Gaulle is interested in a science
policy which would go beyond ad hoc
collaboration, on limited projects. Know-
how is the only British asset that the French
government covets, and if the British could
be induced to part with it while remaining
outside the European community, then'
General de Gaulle could congratulate him-
self on having won on the swings and the
roundabouts.
As usual, the European Parliament failed
to understand the sense of the commission's
proposals. The long-winded and high-
minded oratory remained consistently out
of touch with political realities, and made
even the Council of Europe's debates seem
urgent and lively. But then the Council of
Europe actually does have a science policy
of a sort, even if it is only concerned with
air pollution,
France
How to stop a
trial
AR TPARIS CORRESPONDENT
decided to face the French court before the
trial ended,
Yet this was not the end of the suspense.
It was only 24 hours later, on Wednesday
afternoon, that Dlimi appeared in the court-
yard of the Paris tribunal and was arrested.
What was the purpose of this last-minute
Moroccan operation ? In Paris views
differed. But by Thursday the impression
was gaining ground that this was a joint
move to bury the whole affair. Dlimi's
lawyers have already requested a court of
appeal to decide that, in keeping with the
Franco-Moroccan convention, their client
should be tried by a Moroccan court. The
French court of appeal (court de. cassation)
usually takes a long time to reach a-
decision. In the meantime the Ben Barka
case is suspended. Two of the minor
defendants were actually granted pro-
visional freedom. Everything seems set for
a very long suspension. Could Tuesday's
apparent hitch really have been a triumph
of stage-management ?
Italy
CPYRGHT
Togliatti no,
Marx yes
he new marxist-leninist parry founded i
eghorn last Sunday by disaffected corn
unists is only one, and probably not th
most important, symptom of communist dis
ontent in Italy. The real " Chinese," mos
bservers reckon, are still inside the part
here they can do more harm than b
oming into the open. So far the corn
munist papers have vied with the obtuse
art of the rest of the press in making fu
of the proceedings in Leghorn.
This is the holy city of Italian corn
unism: here in 1921 a group of outstand
g personalities including Grarnsci
ordiga and the then little known Togliatt
ended the Italian communist party afte
reaking with the socialists. The theatr
here they assembled was bombed durin
e war but a plaque on its ruins corn
emorates the historic occasion. Here th
mall band of nostalgics marched on Sun.
ay to raise their emblems, and with th
im of erasing the unworthy name o
ogliatti from those of the foundin
arxist group to the lett o r e communists.
he new splinter party, the Partito Comu-
ista d'Italia Marxista-Leninista, is led by
me Vincenzo Misefari. He is a Calabrian,
ut this does not seem to indicate a close
onnection with the dissident communist
ovement in the south. This was repre-
entcd in Leghorn by Signor Aldo Pugliese,
x-mayor of Spezzano Albanese and
cknowledged leader of a peasant revolt
gainst the official party leadership. But
whether Signor Pugliese actually adhered to
he new party is uncertain. It appears to
epresent some of the younger rebels among
he industrial workers of north and central
taly, rather than the more serious and
tubborn but as yet hardly articulate dis-
ffection of the peasants in the south. It
tands for the pure doctrine : the destruc-
ion of the bourgeois state, and the dictator-
hip of the proletariat. It denies the
ossibility of peaceful transition from
apitalism to socialism, and derides the
ommunist leaders for their bourgeois
roclivities, accusing them of connivance'
ith the pro-American policies of the
remlin.
In the present state of Italian politics,
with economic revival in the air and the
eft-centre coalition gaining strength from
he imminent unification of the socialists, it
Ices not seem likely that these purists can
ffer much to their prospective supporters.
he communist party is annoyed by the
rack in. its carefully cultivated image of
nity, but probably not seriously alarmed.
t is far more worried by the spread of
isaffection in the south. Pundits claim
hat, while the new party is supported
y China, the Calabrian peasants are
ncouraged from Tirana, which is said to
ppeal to the Albanian element in the
opulation. This is far-fetched. Albanian
mmigration goes. back to the fifteenth
entury. In reality the peasants have lost
aith in everyone, Chinese, Albanians,
remlin and all, and first and foremost in
he Italian communist leaders. What
appens in the south will depend ultimately
n whether the socialists in turn are able to
onvince the peasants that they have their
nterests at heart. ? ,
11411(. Ces 1111, says me vrencii song,.fa
recommence. On Tuesday the lengthy Ben
Barka case was drawing to an end. Maitre
Floriot was pleading for the two policemen.
The two counsels for Lopez were to speak
on Wednesday, the expected day of the
verdict. The day after that was to see the
trial and verdict for those charged in
absentia, including the Moroccans headed
by General Oufkir. But on Tuesday
afternoon occurred the first real hitch in *a
trial which up to then had seemed very well
stage-managed. A cable from Rabat
brought the sensational news that Major
Ahmed Dlirni, head of the security police
and right-hand man of General Oufkir, had
left Morocco to give himself up to French
justice.
Before leaving, Major Dlimi had sent a
letter to King Hassan. As Le Monde put
it, the letter "was written with such
sovereign art that iiQ PVftCLF & BRIM[
surprised by any of its terms." In it, Major
Dlimi argued that since his country was
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athers. One malicious report said tha
fter they had gone a group of orthodo
ommunists went to erase the crasion an
doing so found they had burnished u
he name of Stalin. Unquestionably th
ember of the new splinter party are fe
nd obscure: the delegates in Leghorn wer
ss than a hundred and included no name
f national prestige,
In this respect the split differs essential)
om the ideological breach which occurrc
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~'h%7d Nial lei' . Halms 11gt 0.1
ur of the party's more popular and mor
rilliant .leaders, walked out to found th
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