Communists: Family Quarrel

Russia and Red China have little in common save Communism, and even on that they disagree. The nature and the size of the split can shape the course of the cold war, and the West's strategists have studied every scrap of evidence to help map its dimensions. The split was papered over at the meeting of all the world's 81 Communist parties in Moscow last winter. Last week there was new evidence that the quarrel between the partners is becoming increasingly acrimonious. Writing in the London Sunday Times, Polish-born Kremlinologist Isaac Deutscher...

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