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...shrewd leader of Eastern Europe's nationalist Communists and a man who has increasingly chafed under Soviet attempts to dominate world Communism, Rumania's Nicolae Ceausescu cast a jaundiced eye from the very beginning on last week's conference of Communist parties in Budapest. Ceausescu sent a Rumanian delegation only after exacting Moscow's promise that there would be no attacks on any national Communist Party and that there would be "a free exchange of views" on whether to hold a giant summit meeting of Communist parties, Moscow's chief proposal at the meeting. When...
...bitter attack on Mao Tse-tung's "slander campaign" against the conference. It also became quickly apparent that Moscow had already decided on the time and the place-November or December in Moscow-for a full-dress Communist summit meeting, and expected only a dutiful seconding from the Budapest assembly. As if all this did not disturb the Rumanians enough, the general secretary of the tiny Syrian Communist Party, who is also a full-time resident of Moscow, bitterly attacked Rumania for retaining diplomatic relations with Israel after the June war-the only Communist nation...
...embarrassment at the Rumanian walkout was heightened by further signs of discontent from within its own borders. Despite stern warnings to cease their campaign on behalf of four writers imprisoned in January for underground literary activity, a dozen professors, writers and other intellectuals sent a letter to the Budapest meeting protesting the defendants' fate and that of "several thousand political prisoners" confined to prisons and concentration camps under "harsh infringements of legality." "We appeal to the participants in the consultative congress," said the letter, "to fully consider the peril caused by the trampling on the rights...
These two views of the possibility of Communist unity more or less set the theme for this week's worldwide conference of Communist parties in Budapest. Still, it is remarkable enough that it is taking place at all. For nearly eight years, the Russians have been vainly trying to bring about a Communist summit, chiefly in order to embarrass and isolate the renegade Chinese. Now that they have finally got their way, they have few illusions about what will be achieved. In fact, the meeting demonstrates the parlous disrepair into which the once proud Communist monolith has fallen...
...views any closer together. Whatever their quarrels, though, the Communists can still reunite solidly on one point: condemnation of U.S. policy in Viet Nam. Indeed, Soviet bloc party chiefs who met in Prague last week to celebrate Czechoslovakia's 20th year under Communism spoke ominously of considering in Budapest "a joint program of action in the struggle against imperialism." That, in Communist parlance, can only mean some new effort by Russia and Eastern Europe to promote the cause of Hanoi...