Communist leaders have a way of disappearing from sight and then, when the rumors of their death are beginning to fill the world press, of turning up alive and kicking. Last week in Tokyo, the pattern was reversed: a Communist leader whom everybody counted alive was acknowledged to have died almost two years ago.
Kyiuchi Tokuda, the boundlessly energetic revolutionary who fled Japan one step ahead of General MacArthur's military police in 1950, was still recognized by Japanese Communists as the party's secretary-general and only inspired leader, though he was resident in Peking and revealed his august self only through...
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