(SANITIZED)WORLD COMMUNIST AFFAIRS(SANITIZED)

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: June 28, 2012
• Sequence Number: 26
• Publication Date: August 1, 1966
• Content Type: REPORT

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Significant Dates /
26 International Symposium on the Adaptation of the Machine to Man
(sponsored by the International Labor Organization) opens in Prag
28 WIDF sponsored conference do Nepal on Children, for Afghanistan,
Nepal, India and Pakistan. (Communist)
-- Executive Council meeting scheduled in Tanzania of the Afro-Asian!,
Peoples Solidarity Organization (AAPSO). (Communist)
-- 16th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs opens in Sop~t,
Poland.
I Soviet Red Army enters Yugoslavia under agreement with Tito pro- I
viding for withdrawal on conclusion of military operations. COnly
instance in East Europe where USSR honors such an agreement.) 194,4.
3 International Conference on Children opens in Stockholm. Sponsor~,d
by Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF), World Federa-
tion of Trade Unions (WFTU), and Worid Peace Council (WPC). (Com-~I
munist)
5 Establishment of Communist Information Bureau (Cominform), suc-
cessor to the Comintern, announced by Radio Moscow. 1947. I
7 German Democratic Republic (East German Communist regime) procialm~
ed. 1949.
10 Sixth Congress of International Organization of Journalists CIOJ')
opens in East Berlin. (Communist)
II Archbishop Stepinac sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment in Communist
Yugoslavia. 1946. Twentieth anniversary.
17 22nd Congress of CPSU at which Khrushchev and Chou En-Iai clash onl!~
issues of Stalinism and Albania. 1961. Fifth anniversary.
19-21 Central Committee, Polish CP, defies Moscow, elects Gomulka (only
recently released from prison)~as head of government. 1956.
Tenth anniversary.
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I August 1966
Uncommon Moscow and Peking
Silence Commentary on French
Nuclear Tests
Soviet media coverage of
the French nuclear test at Mururoa
Ato11 on 2 July has been limited to
a four-sentence TASS dispatch on the
international service on the same
day as the test. It notes without
comment that "the experimental de-
vice is classed 'tactical.' as re-
gards yield" and that this is the
first of a series of tests which
France plans to hold in the coming.
few months at its Pacific nuclear
experimental center.
Briefly Noted
At the time of the signing of
the partial nuclear test ban treaty
in 1963 Moscow was similarly re-
strained in -its references to France,
commenting with regret in a low key
that the French had not signed the
treaty and were also absent from
the 18-nation disarmament talks in
Geneva.
Peking's NCNA on 4 July car-
ried a short, factual report on the
test similar to the TASS dispatch.
Aside from this, the only other
available Chicom media reference to
the tests is found in an NCNA dis-
patch of 11 July quoting a state-
ment made by a Chinese delegate at
the World Federation of Democratic
Youth Congress in Sofia. After
criticizing the "manipulations" of
the Soviet delegation and alluding
to "U.S.-USSR cooperation" in world
affairs, the unidentified "leading
member" of the Chinese delegation
stated, according to NCNA:.
"In addition, the manipulators
of the Congress forced through a
resolution on the Freneh nuclear '~
tests in the Pacific. Without eon',
demning U~ S. imperialism, phi eh
poses the main threat of a nueZea~,
war, the resolution, in the name of
opposing the Freneh nuclear tests,l~`
attacked aZZ countries which refused
to accede to the Uo S. -Ua K. -USSR
partial nuclear test ban treaty an~'d
called for 'nonproliferation of i
nuclear weapons' which is aimed af~,
reinforcing the UoS. and Soviet ~~;
nuclear monopoly. The deZegations~;of
China, Albania, the Vietnam Demo- ~I
eratie Republic, Korea, and Fuerto~l
Rico exposed the resolution for what
%t was and opposed. it. " 50X1-HUM
Subversion United Fronts in M~~dd',le
by Radio East Urged by Communist
Parties 50X1-HUM
the Communists are calling for uni,`t-
ed fronts in many areas of the ~I
world. Recent broadcasts by clan-~',
destine Communist radios beamed toy
the Middle East have stridently
called for the formation of .such ~I
fronts to unseat the governments ol';f
Turkey, Greece, and Iraq., ~!
crrorr ~?____
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On 24 June "Our Radio" in Turk-
ish declared:. "There is not a single
political force in Turkey capable of
waging the struggle against imperial-
ism and the ru Ze o f ' compradors ' by
itself. That is why cooperation and
the implementation of a front po~Z-
iey are needed for that struggle.
That is why the Republican People's
Party, the Turkish Labor Party,
youth organizations, trade unions,
the armed forces, and Intellectuals
must set up a common front."
On 12 July the "Voice of Truth"
in Greek carried a statement by the
Politburo of the Greek Communist
Party which proclaimed: ~"The immed-
iate removal of the 'government of
blood' is imperative, as is the
holding of free elections by a care-
taker government trusted by aZZ
parties under a simple proportional
system. Only with solidarity, com-
mon struggle, and unity of democra-
tic forces and only with the mobili-
zation of the millions of Greek
people who yearn for normalcy in
the country can the antipopuZar and
antinationaZ plans of the dark eir-
eZes of the royal coup be repelled
and the path opened to democratic
rebirth and national progress....
Communists and elements of the Zeft
who stood unshakeable at the outset
of the struggle will do what they
can to bring about the greatest
unity and coordination of action by
the democratic forces."
A more comprehensive call for
unified action against pro-Western
governments was broadcast on 5 July
by the "Voice of the Iraqi People"
in Arabic. It carried a statement
by the Iraqi Communist~Party attack-
ing the governments of Saudi Arabia,
Jordan, Kuwait, and Israel as West-
ern imperialist tools in a plot to
"crush the Arab liberation movement"
in the UAR, Syria, l~emen, and Alger-
ia. ?
The broadcast statement noted
that "Communists in many Arab count-
ries deservedly occupy positions
which no others can in the vanguard
of the progressive forces" and con-
tinued: "One of the most important
requirements for a victorvous strug-
gle against imperialism and Zionism
is to remove the present regime in
Iraq and enable the people to deter-
mine their own future. A national
coalition government which will
respond to the Kurdish peop~Ze's
legitimate demands, based on a firm
democratic alliance, is the only
way to place Iraq in the vanguard
of the struggling forces in the bat-
tle of destiny in which the Arab
nation is now engaged."
serious situation which is now
facing the Arab peoples has prompted
the Communists in the Arab countries
to place the interests of their
countries and nation above everry-
thing else, as they always have,
and to appreciate with a sense of
responsibility the initiatives taken
toward realizing :rapprochement and
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u~u.n~ v
solidarity in order to face dangers."
How sincere this claim can be easily
demonstrated by calling attention
to the fact that the satement goes
on to demand that "nationalist pol-
iticians in Arab governments, such
as the one in Cairo, must first
stop "persecuting Communists and
progressive elements" before such
a front can be formed and then they
can "depend on the effective and
honest support of the Soviet Union
and'the other Socialist countries."
Their words Unpersons -- Chinese
had been Style
distributed
world wide Some of the most prom-
- inent figures in the
ChiCom hierarchy have fallen victim
to the purges of the current "Great
Cultural Revolution". The Chinese
regime has released no word on the
fate of these victims; even their
removal has become known only
through publication of the names of
their successors. Thus, they have
become "unpersons" in the classic
Communist sense.
How precarious any position in
a totalitarian power structure is --
and how abruptly any office holder
may turn into an "unperson" is
graphically illustrated by the many
multilanguage pamphlets issued by
Peking Foreign Languages Publishing
House, authored by these men as
major contributions to the Chinese
propaganda line. Most spectacular
purge victim to date is Peng Chen,
until recently Vice Premier and
Mayor of Peking, regarded as one of
the top candidates for Mao's suc-
cession; just a year ago Peking was
giving world-wide dissemination to
handsomely-published pamphlets con-
taining the text of Peng's fiery,
hard-line speech at the (Communist)
Aliarcham Academy of Social Sciences
in Indonesia on 25 May 1965, in
conjunction-with the PKI's 45th i
anniversary. We have seen only i
English, French, Spanish, and German
versions, but similar pamphlets are
known to have appeared in as many a~
22 world languages.. This. document
is actually a double-barreled demon-
stration of the perils of Communist)
life, inasmuch as the Aliarcham ~
Academy also disappeared -- with th~
fall of the PKIY ~
Concurrently with-the Peng I
Chen contribution, Peking was dis- '~,
tributing a similar pamphlet re-
printing from Red Flag No. 5, 10 i
May 1965, an article commemorating i,
the 20th anniversary of the "victor
over German Fascism" by Lo Jui-chinlg,
then Vice Premier and Liberation ',
Army Chief of Staff, now an unper-
son. I
Somewhat earlier, Peking dis-i
seminated a pamphlet similiar in !,
appearance but almost twice as lon~
(70 pages in pocket-book format;
105 in reduced size) with the high1.
ly authoritative directive-speech,
"The Fighting Task Confronting ~
Workers in Philosophy and the Social
Sciences," delivered at the fours
enlarged conference (26 October I
1963) of the Committee of the De- ~I
partment of Philosophy and Social ~I
Sciences of the Chinese Academy of ~'
Sciences by Chou Yang -- until June
1966 Vice Director of the Propaganda
Department of the CC/CCP, present
whereabouts unknown. 50X1-HUM
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In its polemical
warfare with the "Khrushchev revi-
sionists," Peking has repeatedly
said that it publishes full Soviet
texts for the purpose of "teaching
(learning) by negative example":
such rationale could be expressed
in ordering. copies of these pamph-
lets. -- especially if the authors
should eventually be labeled as
enemies rather than left in limbo
as "unpersons." (Note: Late info
as we go to press indicates that
Chou Yang has already become an
enemy: People's Daily on July 15
names him as "the chief of the black
gang in literature and art" which
"for a long time" has "preached
anti-Party, anti-socialist, and
anti-Mao Tse-tung ideas, usurped
positions in literary and art cir-
cles, and violently opposed the
correct leadership of the Party
CC." PD endorses actions "to set-
tle the account of the crimes of
this black gang.")
De GauZZe Further Splintering
Foreign Among French Communists
PoZiey
At Issue According to the 30
June Figaro of Paris,
dissenting French Communist Party
(PCF) members met in Paris 25-26
June to transform their "Marxist-
Leninist Circles" into a political
party. The 150 pro-Chinese, pro-
Albanian, and anti-Soviet delegates
agreed to establish the "Parti Com-
munist Marxiste-Leniniste", probably
in October. Their monthly organ,
L'Humanite Nouvelle, which has been
published since February 1965, will
become a biweekly.
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The West German Muenchner
Merkur reported on 1 July that
Albanian party leader Hoxha has
wired congratulations to the new
group which is "recruiting Commu-
nist Party members who are disap-
pointed over the concurrence of
party head Waldeck Rochet with
Gaullist foreign policy."
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