From the moment they first got fragmentary reports of Mao Tse-tung's "secret" speeches propounding the heretical notion that there can be "contradictions" between a Communist government and its people (TIME. May 27), Western experts have been debating whether or not Red China's boss was trying to assert ideological independence of Moscow. Last week, as Polish Communists began to leak quotations from his pronouncements, it became apparent that Chairman Mao was putting himself on a par not just with Khrushchev but with the prophets of Marxism. "Marx and Engels." Mao had said with bland Oriental condescension, "did not know about...
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