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...West to suit the realities of a highly developed Soviet industrial society. The doctrine has come under increasing attack from the militant revolutionaries of Communist China (TIME, June 27). Last week, calling Eastern European Communist leaders to his side, Khrushchev went before the Rumanian Party Congress in Bucharest to give his first direct answer to Mao Tse-tung's challenge to his ideological primacy among world Communists...
Khrushchev was feeling cocky about his stature at home as well as abroad. At a reception in Bucharest, Nikita casually told a story of how his fellow Presidium members nearly deposed him in the 1957 leadership showdown. Said Khrushchev, as the jaws of listening comrades dropped: "Bulganin, my friend for more than 20 years, told me: 'We are seven against your four.' I replied that this may be mathematically correct, but in politics things are different. Although in mathematics two plus two are four, this does not apply...
...Hungarian risings had compelled the Russians to pour $1.5 billion in emergency aid into the satellite lands. Communist rulers of the seven satellite nations pledged their peoples' labors to help Nikita Khrushchev overtake and "bury" the capitalist West through a planned ''international division of labor." In Bucharest last week, Nikita Khrushchev crowed: "Obviously the imperialists do not like our cooperation. They would like our countries to be like the team in the well-known fable in which the crayfish is backing, the swan strains toward the sky, and the pike pulls toward the water...
Death Reported. Ana Rabinsohn Pau-ker, 65, longtime Communist matriarch, who as Foreign Minister ran Red Rumania from 1947 until her downgrading to a minor job in 1952; of cancer; in Bucharest. After joining the Communists in 1921, the Bucharest-born Jewess spent 15 years in and out of Rumania and jail before going to the Soviet Union. In 1945, one year after her return to Rumania, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Vishinsky visited, noted Mrs. Pauker's power over the incumbent regime, departed purring, "I feel very lighthearted...
Before World War II ended, Malinovsky had plenty of practice in improvising offensives. As commander of a Ukrainian army group, he directed the capture of Bucharest, Budapest and Vienna. Then, shifted to command of Russia's Far Eastern armies, he mopped up Japanese forces in Manchuria in the "one week war" that Stalin launched against a Japan already negotiating surrender...