A delegation from Communist Rumania led by Premier Ion Maurer showed up in Peking last week, and the West's Kremlinologists were wondering why. Not since Nikita Khrushchev him self traveled to Red China in 1959 had such a high-level European Communist mission made the trip.
One group of Western experts, pointing out that Rumania had carefully steered a neutral course in the SinoSoviet feud, argued that the trip was made on behalf of the Soviets in order to show the Red bloc that Moscow was more reasonable than Peking. As evidence, the experts pointed out that the Soviet Ambassador to...
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