RUSSIA: Unconcealed Weapons

In Moscow last week the world's No. 1 Communist gave world Communism its new line: coexist capitalism to death.

Some 1,350 delegates from Communist Parties in 55 countries assembled in Moscow's Great Kremlin Palace to sit on straight wooden seats through long hours of speeches, to acquiesce in what they were told, and to applaud methodically.

In the very first session, even their dutiful applause came in for criticism. As First Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev and the other big shots entered by a side door, they were greeted by a noisy standing ovation....

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