COMMUNISTS: Behind the Doors

Somewhere amid the onion domes of Moscow last week the leaders of 80-odd Communist parties from all over the world were apparently locked in titanic struggle. After two solid weeks of argument, the supreme junta of world Communism was still threshing out the grand party line. Either way, it still meant to sweep the world, but Mao Tse-tung was arguing for more militancy and bellicosity than Nikita Khrushchev thinks necessary.

The very duration of the meeting bespoke its lack of results. But there were other confirmations of its failure. In Peking last week,...

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