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...cancer; in New York City. Born Francis X. Waldron Jr. of a middle-class Seattle family, Dennis joined the party as a youthful instructor, served as a Red agent in Europe, China and South Africa, became the leader of U.S. Communists after Moscow dumped his onetime mentor, Earl Browder, for deviationist notions. In 1950 Dennis went to jail for refusing to testify about his Communism before a House committee; again, after the 1949 trial of "first-string" Communists, he was convicted for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the Government and sentenced to five years...
Embodied in the new Communist Manifesto, published during the recent Moscow conference of the 81 communist parties, the change in policy means that Peking is now the "ideological center" of the communist world. Political pressures within Russia, Browder asserted, forced Khrushchev to submit to the Chinese stand that history will guarantee a socialist victory...
Rephrasing the topic from "can communism exist independent of Russia" to "can communism and Russia exist independent of Peking," Mr. Browder still emphasized that China will not become a greater power than Russia within the next 100 years, although it may start a world war. Furthermore, China is opposed by another communist nation which "has achieved real independence," Yugoslavia...
...Browder stressed that not only does Yugoslavia defend the policy of peaceful co-existence and repudiate war as an instrument of socialism, but Marshal Tito's party also accepts the responsibility for bringing about peace. Yugoslavia, the harbinger of a new trend in the communist world, is therefore an indispensable ally of the West in its struggle to ease cold-war tensions...
Challenging the United States to "escape from a sterile foreign policy formed by accident and bureaucracy," Mr. Browder cited need for a positive program attacking poverty and supporting national liberation. Since the new Manifesto guarantees that the communist ideological struggle with the West will be uncompromising, the "intellectually paralyzed" U.S. must take advantage of the fact that a "monolithic unity does not exist in the communist world...