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Back from Bucharest, Patrick Gordon Walker, the British Labor Party's for eign affairs expert, says: "In Eastern Europe at the moment, Khrushchev has about six De Gaulles on his hands...
...improve the climate of the talks, the Bucharest regime reportedly released a few of the estimated 10,000 political prisoners still in Rumanian jails and leaked stories of anti-Russian demonstrations in Rumania. The Rumanians, who have long challenged Moscow's economic domination of the Eastern bloc, made it quite clear last week that they felt they could get away with all this because Moscow is currently too preoccupied with Red China to give them much trouble...
Rumanian Revolt. But if the Chinese were non grata in Moscow, there was at least one Eastern European Communist capital where Peking was still welcome. In Bucharest, Rumanian Party Boss Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, 62, went out of his way to include Mao Tse-tung in his May Day message of greeting. In the Red world, it was a significant gesture, and every Communist from Auckland to Zanzibar took note of it. For Dej is playing a double game in the Sino-Soviet conflict, one that could lead to plenty of trouble-or perhaps to a certain amount of freedom...
...ostentatiously laid a wreath on Joe's tomb a few years ago. Rumania had already defied Soviet economic planners by building up its own industry rather than humbly serving as raw-material supplier for the rest of Eastern Europe. According to the latest theory, the boys from Bucharest were now parading their ideological independence from the Russians...
...fact, however, ideology may be less significant than economics in explaining the motive behind the Rumanian visit. Rumania is eager to find markets for exports; Bucharest's booming oil industry can easily fill Red China's desperate need for refining equipment. One solid indicator pointed to economics as a key factor: Peking's new Ambassador to Rumania, Liu Fang, is unknown as a diplomat but well known as the former vice-minister of Red China's faltering petroleum industry...