BRITAIN: Unwanted Guest

YOU'RE NOT WELCOME, COMRADE, read the headline in the London Daily Mail. Just in case the visitor failed to get the message, the paper repeated it in Russian: Mbl BAC HE XOTHM, TOBAPHIU.The comrade was Politburo Member Alexander Shelepin, whose 48-hour visit to Britain last week mortified the Labor government, embarrassed the trade unions, and stirred unexpectedly deep reserves of anti-Communist feeling among the British public.

The outcry actually began last February when news leaked out that Shelepin would head a Soviet delegation invited by Britain's Trades Union Congress. The Kremlin could...

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