Communists: That Bourgeois Woman

The Sino-Soviet split is getting wider.

Russia's retreat in Cuba and Red China's attack in India are dividing partisans of Moscow and Peking everywhere. A minority faction of "Chinese" and Stalinist sympathizers in the Belgian Communist Party supported the "rectitude of Castro's cause" and condemned the "imperialist aggression of Nehru." On the other hand, Italian Red Boss Palmiro Togliatti, once a Stalinist but now a loyal Khru-shchevite, pointedly declined to take sides between India and China. Said he: "We don't know where the truth lies."

In Bulgaria, which had just wiped out a...

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